A promise must never be broken.

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

I’ve never been a manipulator, even in my bachelor days. I never wanted to do things to people that could catch up with me later on.

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

I like to recede away from classifications. You might say that indicates a fundamental lack of commitment. I suppose that’s true to some degree.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

I never promise anything. I don’t promise anything to my mum. I don’t promise anything to the supporters.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three.

But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.

In spiritual things, it is God who performs all things for you. Rest in Him, then.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

Does anybody really think that they didn’t get what they had because they didn’t have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

I have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That is a promise.

The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

All in all, I just don’t trust journalists – and I don’t think it’s a good practice for me to trust journalists.

Part of me feels you can’t say you were truly in love if it didn’t last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that’s when I’ll know it’s real – because it lasted.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

Federalism is no longer the fault line of Centre-State relations but the definition of a new partnership of Team India. Citizens now have the ease of trust, not the burden of proof and process. Businesses find an environment that is open and easy to work in.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

I can’t make a song for a particular person or demographic. If I love it, I’m gonna do it. I have to perform it for the rest of my life. A song is like a tattoo – you can never get away from it.

If I had chosen the populist course, it would have been a breach of the trust placed in me by the people.

If you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you’ve got a pretty good shot at making a great movie that you can commit yourself to, you can jump off the proverbial cliff with, and have a great time, and the audiences respond to that.

Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

You can scream at me, call me for a shoot at midnight, keep me waiting for hours – as long as what ends up on the screen is perfect.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

I left school to concentrate on racing. It was a family decision between my mum, dad and myself.

I believe that economics is based on scarcity of markets. And it’s possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce.

No man wants to settle down. It happens. Eventually you’re going to bump into somebody that makes you go, ‚Hmm, I don’t mind seeing this person every day.‘

Commitment is an act, not a word.

You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.

People’s blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

I’m committed to the fight game.

No public man can be just a little crooked.

There’s a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.

I’m not trying to get myself up a notch on the ladder by shoving somebody else down on the ladder, whether it’s a candidate or the president of the United States or anybody else. I just don’t believe that’s the way one oughta campaign, I’ve never done that.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

I don’t think you ever really know what all you’re doing, so you have to act on faith.