When the party gives me a responsibility, I must do it with complete dedication. God has given me the ability, which I utilise to its optimum.

I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

Never at any point did I feel like missing a training session. I was very keen on improving as a cricketer and as an international player.

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn’t really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn’t going to compose Beethoven’s Fifth.

We have a great group of guys that really sacrifice every night, care about each other, and try to play the right away.

Although I don’t have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

I have to work really hard to get the record deal – I have to spend years at it to get good. I have to practice to be good at guitar.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

I probably work harder, putting in a lot of time and effort, than a lot of drivers because all I think about, and all I do, is to do with racing, trying to make myself a better driver.

I’m committed to the fight game.

It was a personal decision for me to stand and say that cricket is all I have in life, there’s nothing I need to do other than cricket. If I want to achieve whatever I thought as a kid, I need to work hard and not let it go to waste.

When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn’t for you. It’s for the Presidency.

I’ve always believed that success for anyone is all about drive, dedication, and desire, but for me, it’s also been about confidence and faith.

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you’re going to be a second-rate artist.

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don’t think anybody has held this job who hasn’t felt personally responsible for those being killed.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

A lot of blood, sweat, and tears have gone into this career of mine.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation.

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

I believe that every one of us has a gift. And I believe that mine is the ability to take the complex and make it simple.

We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.

I don’t think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that’s what counts.

It’s a rule to give all, and it can make the difference if you work more. If you don’t have to give all, and you still win, what’s this?

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

I wasn’t very good in academics, but I could have been if I could have studied well. I was a smart kid.

Every President wants to do right.

Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I’ll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you’re not on time.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

When I’m in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself ‚why?‘

Actors know, with me they aren’t going to be allowed to rehearse a scene for a couple of hours and then get away with doing 25 takes before we get it right. So they come with their full bag of tricks.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.

The government’s job is good governance for everybody. My government will make policies; if you fit into it, come on board, or stay where you are. My job is not to spoon-feed anyone.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

I dwell in possibility.

Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.

Over the course of my career in law enforcement, I have witnessed over and over again the selflessness and sacrifice of law enforcement who lay their lives on the line every day to protect people who they will never meet and people who will never know their names.

I believe that every person is born with talent.