And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.

We also can’t try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That’s not leadership; that’s a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It’s the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq – and we should have learned it by now.

Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.

We don’t need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.

You’ve got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

Americans… still believe in an America where anything’s possible – they just don’t think their leaders do.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

When you’re traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I’ve met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters – two beautiful, intelligent black young women – playing with their dogs on the White House lawn. And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters, and all our sons and daughters, now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States.

A company is a group organized to create a product or service, and it is only as good as its people and how excited they are about creating. I do want to recognize a ton of super-talented people. I just happen to be the face of the companies.

I believe in Coach Louis Wong. He is so much more than just a football coach.

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish – too much handling will spoil it.

For a while… to be an evangelical meant you were a white Republican, and you were against this and against that. I don’t want to be put into that mold, because then people judge you before they even listen… I don’t want to divide the very people I am trying to reach.

The colonel replied that he didn’t care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

Pakistan is not a unified country.

The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.

Fit no stereotypes. Don’t chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team’s mission.

I’m afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same.

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,‘ he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. ‚Shake it off. Stop complainin‘. Stop grumblin‘. Stop cryin‘. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

Sometimes, people can be extraordinarily judgmental and closed-minded to anyone different or special, which is why it’s so hard for young people in this day and age to be comfortable enough in their own skin to not listen to the people picking on them.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration… that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

Here in America, we don’t let our differences tear us apart. Not here. Because we know that our greatness comes from when we appreciate each other’s strengths, when we learn from each other, when we lean on each other, because in this country, it’s never been each person for themselves. No, we’re all in this together. We always have been.

I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world.

My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.

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.

With Benghazi, I don’t see anyone saying, ‚Hey look, I am overall responsible for this and therefore, I take responsibility for what happened. It’s my fault.‘ I haven’t heard that yet. Meanwhile, the other side of the coin, the Osama bin Laden raid, it seems everyone made that decision, and that’s just unbelievable to me.

A good model of how to ‚work with the enemy‘ internally is presented by the Dalai Lama, in his endless caretaking of his soul as he confronts the Chinese government that invaded Tibet.

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Taylor Swift’s audience can listen to me, but so can the street kids. I want to touch it all.

We can’t allow the world’s worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world’s worst weapons.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

I’m going to try to unite all Americans.

The President’s post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.

Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.

It doesn’t take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

Look, the American people are smart.

In God’s family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who’s been dead for 15 years.

We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal.

My dear sisters, whatever your calling, whatever your circumstances, we need your impressions, your insights, and your inspiration. We need you to speak up and speak out in ward and stake councils.

I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

I always tell people that you should only hire people to be on your team if you would work for them.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.

Here’s the thing. We do a movie with a predominantly black cast, and it’s put in a category of being a black film. When other movies are done with a predominantly white cast, we don’t call them a white film. I’m trying to remove the stigma off things they call black films.

I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of ‚escape of energy,‘ that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.

We are all alike, on the inside.

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

I don’t want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

When I checked into SEAL Team One many years ago, one of the things that I noticed was there was this old guy, who was younger than I am today, who I decided that I was going to be like. I wanted to emulate what he was doing, and one of those things was he got to work before anybody else.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

I’m not looking to exclude people, I’m looking to include them.

Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.

We named the book ‚Extreme Ownership‘ because we really found that when we looked at not only at leaders but at teams that were the most successful, we found that the ones that had this attitude of extreme ownership were the ones that did the best, and it’s definitely an attitude that I had.

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.