A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S.

I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.

I’ve been so blessed to play for the greatest coach at a time when our organization has done incredible things. I’ve played with the best teammates. Playing for Mr. Kraft and what his influence on the team has been.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail – I shall succeed.

If my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

In general, I think, U.S. policies remain constant, going back to the Second World War. But the capacity to implement them is declining.

One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Be the hunter, not the hunted.

You are twice as likely to be struck by lightning as you around to be affected by a terrorist event in the United States.

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music ‚made it‘ the same way. It’s all different. There’s no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it.

In order for the United States to do the right things for the long term, it appears to be helpful for us to have the prospect of humiliation. Sputnik helped us fund good science – really good science: the semiconductor came out of it.

For me, America is really, truly the indispensable nation.

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

Competitions are a business, first and foremost.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

I try to make it look easy, but the behind-the-scenes stuff is the challenge.

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

I’m proud to play for Real Madrid because I have fun; when you no longer have fun it’s a sign that it’s time to leave. For now though, I’m happy here at the greatest club in the world.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

Many people, especially in the U.S., see countries like Sweden or Norway or Finland as role models – we have such a clean energy sector, and so on. That may be true, but we are not role models.

If a person is successful, we imagine they are probably also ethical, conscientious and deserving of their good fortune. This obscures the fact that many people who get ahead have done so by doing less than moral actions, which they cleverly disguise from view.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

If two smart, intelligent, clever guys sit together on a table, and you both want the same, where can be the problem? We all want to be successful.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

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

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

And winning is a huge thing for me.

Surveys show our standing around the world is higher than when I was elected to this office, and when it comes to every important international issue, people of the world do not look to Beijing or Moscow to lead – they call us.

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

I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

See, ‚A Time to Kill‘ was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.

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

The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That’s what I enjoy now.

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.

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

When you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up. Once you get to the point where Hollywood sees that you create results, then the demand for you becomes higher.

I wasn’t born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.

The thing I always say to people is this: ‚If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.‘

As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.