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

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

It feels good to have your work respected again.

Every President wants to do right.

I am the center of attention in my job every single day; the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that?

People make a big fuss over you when you’re President. But I’m very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn’t go to my head.

The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers.

I can’t say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

I worked at the Steel Company Of Wales when I was 17. My job was to supply tools to the guys working the blast furnaces.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who’ll get the blame.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

I’ve been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn’t reaping the lion’s share of the profits, and that was problematic for me.

Ultimately this issue is on us. We’re the ones who make the decisions about what our kids eat.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

When you meet chimps you meet individual personalities. When a baby chimp looks at you it’s just like a human baby. We have a responsibility to them.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

Morse conquered his electrical difficulties although he was only a painter, and I don’t intend to give in either till all is completed.

For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.

Christmas morning, I’m going to open presents with my kids. I’m going to take pictures of them opening the presents. Then I’m going to come to the Staples Center and get ready to work.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

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.

Where there is no work, there is no dignity.

I will never retire unless I have to.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

The great thing about having a bunch of kids is they just remind you that you’re the person who takes them to go poop!

If you get your ego in your way, you will only look to other people and circumstances to blame.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.

The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.

Many people listen to what I have to say and I appear a lot in media, so therefore I influence a lot of people and therefore I have a bigger responsibility because I have a bigger platform.

It’d be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren’t kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I’m not a baby sitter.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

You gotta water your plants. Nobody can water them for you.

Don’t overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.

Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it ‚tap-dancing to work.‘

A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.

I think New York has evolved in my work just the way the city has.

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.

I said that America’s role would be limited; that we would not put ground troops into Libya; that we would focus our unique capabilities on the front end of the operation, and that we would transfer responsibility to our allies and partners.

When you’re in a leadership role, you can never please all of the people all of the time. There’s also a lot of responsibility that goes along with it that others may not realize.

I understood that with the swipe of my pen as a prosecutor, I would have the decision in my pen to make a decision about someone’s life.

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.