And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

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

I nearly failed when Virgin was in its infancy; I nearly failed in the early 1980s, and, of course, I have nearly died more than once trying to achieve a world record for boating or ballooning. But through a combination of luck and planning, both Virgin and I are still here.

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments‘ plans.

I believed what my father taught me about the separation of church and state, so when I was President I never invited Billy Graham to have services in the White House because I didn’t think that was appropriate. He was injured a little bit, until I explained it to him.

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I’m angry about bankers. About the government.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it’s just such a dramatic success.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

It’s rule number one, really – beating your teammate.

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

The word ‚God‘ usually signifies ‚Lord‘, but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spiritual being which constitutes a God: a true, supreme, or imaginary dominion makes a true, supreme, or imaginary God.

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don’t do any good, but they don’t necessarily do any harm. It’s touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I’ve got my just desserts.

If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who’s been successful at another college program, they’re going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that.

Indeed, the Lord has not forgotten! He has blessed us and others throughout the world with the Book of Mormon.

I believe in God – not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.

In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don’t baptize the children of single mothers because they weren’t conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today’s hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.

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

As a producer, as a CEO of Hartbeat Productions, I am making deals to put my company in place to win, to put my staff to work so that while all this stuff is going on, they’re in the kitchen cooking. So it’s understanding the longevity of the entertainment business; you get out of it what you put into it.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

Sometimes I wonder why I’m a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I became a writer. And now I’m a successful writer.

I think as long as I do a good job and put in all my effort to proving that I’m worth it, then everything should be fine.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone’s sexual preferences are or if they’re black, brown or purple.

There are many, many Christians who practice Buddhism, and they become better and better Christians all the time.

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

We came up with TDE. As competitive as rap is, and as much as we’re trying to exceed the standards we set for ourselves, we take their wins as our wins, too.

With all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

I am such a political person.

I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.

The humanists‘ replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you’ll either save yourself or you’ll be immortal. Of course, that’s a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there’s no ethical progress whatsoever.

Don’t say I hate institutionalised religion – rather than saying I hate those things, which I do not, what I’m saying is that perhaps there is a way of opening more doors, rather than closing so many.

The government argues that First Amendment rights are outweighed by the need to prosecute those who transmit classified information and documents.

All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they’ll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad’s restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

In order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.

If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Bob Houghton is a great coach and I am confident that the national team will do well under him.