Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

I do not abuse players. I talk to myself; I abuse myself. It’s my way of letting off steam. I do it after every century; I do not do it always. I keep telling myself: ‚Improve, improve from the previous match, the previous shot. You can do it.‘

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

I’m much healthier now.

I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn’t divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

It’s important for me to let my fans know I really don’t care. I’m confident.

I don’t know who I touch and who I don’t. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don’t have any secrets. I don’t know the reasons I’ve been so well received.

Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

I don’t know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

When I was a kid, I had a tendency to criticize. But when I did, my mum would whisk me off to the bathroom to stand in front of a mirror. Ten minutes, never less. To think about how criticism is a poor reflection on the one who criticizes.

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who’s been dead for 15 years.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

‚Victory Lap,‘ even the title. It’s the accumulation of trial and error; that’s what I represent; trial and error.

The power of our thoughts may never be measured or appreciated, but it became obvious to me as a young boy that there was value and power in being aware of my thoughts and how I expressed myself.

How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me.

I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind – this attitude of uncertainty – is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

When you’re coming up with new material, it’s not always gonna be good. The only way to learn is for it not to get a laugh, so you can adjust it and come back the next day to see if it’s working right. Next time, you might get a different laugh. You’re constantly rebuilding.

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

You need to think outside the box. You need to think differently if you want to sustain what, for me, is my peak performance: the very best that I can achieve as an athlete every day.

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

I don’t like looking back. I’m always constantly looking forward. I’m not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I’m too busy looking for the next cow.

Sadly, the truth is, there aren’t many people who can be put in high positions who won’t start thinking highly of themselves.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.

I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I’ve already made them.

I don’t think I’m such an amazing person who needs to be written about.

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

You always have to remember that if you say something negative, it’s going to come back to haunt you.

You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

I’m not going to change the world. You’re not going to change the world. But we can help – we can all help.

Everybody has done something that we wish we didn’t say or do and wish we could take it back.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I’m sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

You cannot see the changes that you’re dreaming about, because they’re internal.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

The first quality that is needed is audacity.

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton both had exceptional natural abilities. Nelson Rockefeller was very good statewide but never gained national traction.

The only difference between me and a madman is that I’m not mad.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.