We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

Both times I was in India, I could not get people to listen to each other. I had to literally tell people to listen to each other and tell them that they can’t get creative and find alternate solutions if they don’t listen to each other. There’s a lot of arguing and justifying.

Language is the dress of thought.

Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Whoever the coach is, my job is to talk to him, understand him and be a better player under him and give my best.

I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

The colonel replied that he didn’t care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there’s no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That’s all crap.

Quitting is the easiest thing to do.

I’m not looking to exclude people, I’m looking to include them.

If you want to influence people, you want them to accept your suggestions, you don’t say, ‚You don’t know how to use the English language,‘ or ‚How could you make that argument?‘ It will be welcomed much more if you have a gentle touch than if you are aggressive.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implement promises, but keep them.

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it’s hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

Rule number one is: Beat your team-mate.

It’s a very good question, very direct, and I’m not going to answer it.

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

The second time around, I’ll understand that, as a husband, my wife doesn’t care about my opinions. I just need to tell her the things that will continue to help me stack the brownie points.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

Never confuse motion with action.

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‚Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

The one way to get me to work my hardest was to doubt me.

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.

If I’m in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person’s side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument.

The drawing teacher has this problem of communicating how to draw by osmosis and not by instruction, while the physics teacher has the problem of always teaching techniques, rather than the spirit, of how to go about solving physical problems.

Though she be but little, she is fierce.

Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.

To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don’t go away, they just echo around.

How to drive a guy crazy: send him a telegram and on the top put ‚page 2.‘

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

Smiles are the language of love.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

Many times, we miss out on God’s best because we give up too soon. We don’t realize how close we are to victory.

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you’re advancing. If you don’t you’re as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn’t there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.