I just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

Winning, to me, is easy. Winning more is the challenge.

We work to become, not to acquire.

My father wasn’t perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

My success isn’t a result of arrogance – it’s a result of belief.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.

Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

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

Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won’t make a company successful.

Ageing’s alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Each doctor makes a much, much more important job than I do, but at the end, nobody talks about him. We all know about it, but we don’t really think about it.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

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

Let the path be open to talent.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

There’s a long way to fall when you pretend that you’re so far away from the earth, far away from reality, floating in a bubble that’s protected by fame or success. It’s scary, and it’s the thing I fear the most: to be swallowed up by that bubble. It can be poison to you, fame.

Magic has five championships. I have five championships. I’m pretty sure we both know what we’re doing.

Success is the child of audacity.

My dad is a great writer. Naturally talented, naturally charming. He embodies that back-in-the-day cool.

God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.

We will naturally pursue our goals on the strength of our own resources, skills and enterprise. But, we know that we will be more successful when we do this in partnership with the world.

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.

I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

I think a role model is a mentor – someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

You always admire what you really don’t understand.

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

I’m one of the luckiest people on earth.

I stayed focused, and I never surrendered, and now I’ve been blessed. now I take care of my mother, my father, and my entire whole family.

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

We all want to win more, but it’s all about being blessed and embracing your blessings. We have life.

My father was a research scientist in tropical medicine, so I always assumed I would be a scientist, too. I felt that medicine was too vague and inexact, so I chose physics.

Giving is true having.

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

I saw 14 games in two and a half months at Churchill. It was what I really signed for. They were eyeing the championship and also playing the AFC Cup. So I am very thankful for Churchill, the coaching staff and the players.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‚Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.‘

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

This election is about who’s going to be the next President of the United States!

We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football. Some handled it better than others.

From childhood on, I did sit in the courtroom watching my father argue cases and talk to juries.