A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that’s really the essence of the Christian faith.

I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one’s life.

The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

Religion, born of the earth’s need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.

If there really is a god, then he really looks after me.

I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they’ll do wonders. I count on them.

Some people keep God in a Sunday morning box and say, ‚Hey, I did my religious duty.‘ That’s fine, but the scripture says to pray without ceasing. And I think that means all through the day you’re talking to God. Even if it’s in your thoughts.

Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.

Me don’t dip on nobody’s side. Me don’t dip on the black man’s side, not the white man’s side. Me dip on God’s side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

I’m the only president you’ve got.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

The story being told in ‚Star Wars‘ is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you’re in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they’re actually not.

All my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

You’ll see it when you believe it.

He that won’t be counseled can’t be helped.

The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

It’s a question of whether we’re going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Life isn’t fair, but God is.

All of us are mentors. You’re mentors right here and now. And one of the things I’ve always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

I do believe that any successful business starts from the top and works its way down.

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

I believe in God – not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

It’s my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.

We have not yet reached the goal but… we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.

Since the team understands that the leader is de facto in charge, in that respect, a leader has nothing to prove. But in another respect, a leader has everything to prove: Every member of the team must develop the trust and confidence that their leader will exercise good judgment, remain calm, and make the right decisions when it matters most.

I’m not the judge. You know, God didn’t tell me to go around judging everybody.

My father always taught me that when you help other people, then God will give you double. And that’s what has really happened to me. When I have helped other people who are in need, God has helped me more.