Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.

The last time I visited Qaddafi was in May of 2001, 15 years after Reagan attacked his rather modest residence where he took me to show me how it had been left.

The dropping of bombs on people – isn’t that terrorism?

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

I always make my dreams into goals.

When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.

You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.

I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like – when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn’t look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that’s terrorism, too.

I focus on one thing and one thing only – that’s trying to win as many championships as I can.

Many badly needed goals, like fusion and cancer cure, would be achieved much sooner if we invested more.

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.

The violence in the Bible is appalling.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

I’ve had a lot of success; I’ve had failures, so I learn from the failure.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

What keeps me going is goals.

There has been a huge attack against private sector unions. Actually, that’s been going on since the Second World War.

The mainstream is always under attack.

You cross me, I’m going to hurt you. But I’m really very gentle.

Don’t worry about motivation. Motivation is fickle. It comes and goes. It is unreliable – and when you are counting on motivation to get your goals accomplished, you will likely fall short.

One day, I want to make a PG film.

At places like Davos, people like to tell success stories. But their financial success has come with an unthinkable price tag. And on climate change, we have to acknowledge we have failed.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don’t see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

Some people want to win races. Other people want to be President of the United States.

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don’t think anybody has held this job who hasn’t felt personally responsible for those being killed.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

It’s really annoying for me. That’s not what I’m playing for, to be the face of the NBA or to be this or that or to take LeBron’s throne or whatever.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

I don’t think about that. I wasn’t a kid growing up saying one day I’ll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn’t on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn’t enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

My measure of success is whether I’m fulfilling my mission.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

If you or I fail at business, we fail. If we cheat and fail, we go to jail. But if you’re rich and politically connected, your incompetence may be protected by a government bailout.

But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

Every artist wants something different out the game.

With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got.

Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.

I plan on taking athletics as far as I can.

War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

My speculation is that the U.S. does not want to establish the principle that it has to defer to some higher authority before carrying out the use of violence.

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.