The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution – they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing.

The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that.

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

I’m always asked, ‚What’s the secret to success?‘ But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one’s belly, in order to be able to save one’s head.

Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.

We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can’t it happen to me? I’m not worried I’m young – it’s an incentive to do the best I can.

Hate crime is not new in the United States.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

I’m here. I’m not going anywhere. No matter what the injury – unless it’s completely debilitating – I’m going to be the same player I’ve always been. I’ll figure it out. I’ll make some tweaks, some changes, but I’m still coming.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

The United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great things, there is no better place than the U.S.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.

We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

We should pass the U.N.’s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don’t. We need to delink terrorism from religion – to isolate terrorists who use this interchange of arguments between terrorism and religion.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

Sure it’s a big job; but I don’t know anyone who can do it better than I can.

Losing is not an option in Kolkata. It’s not easy, a lot of players even quit.

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

Why should Iran have a deterrent strategy? Well, it’s surrounded by hostile enemies. Both of its borders have been under occupation by a hostile superpower, the United States, which is constantly violating the U.N. charter by leaving open what they call the saying, ‚all options are open‘ – meaning the threat of war.

You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.

God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can.

I don’t have freedom in the United States to go into a public school and preach the Gospel, nor is a student free in a public school to pray, or a teacher free to read the Bible publicly to the students. At the same time, we have a great degree of freedom for which I am grateful.

If we don’t succeed we run the risk of failure.

When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there’s a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we’re going to see things through to the finish or quit.

He who walks in the eightfold noble path with unswerving determination is sure to reach Nirvana.

Someone said to me, ‚If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?‘ My answer was then and still is, ‚If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.‘

Our position is that we do not accept conditions of any kind which may affect the independence and sovereignty of our country just with the view to solve economic problems existing between the United States and Cuba.

Nowhere is it written that there must be conflict between the United States and China.

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready.

I don’t want to be something that just comes and goes.

I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

If you get knocked down – setbacks in life, like applying for a job if they don’t hire you – keep trying, keep getting up, keep doing it.

We’re in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

I always put myself out there. I’m not afraid to commit to something.

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.

The United States fully accepts the profound truth that our own progress, prosperity, and peace are interlocked with the progress, prosperity, and peace of all humanity.

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.