Arafat’s departure has created an awesome opportunity.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.

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

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility – I welcome it.

If you call yourself a leader, then you have to be decisive. If you’re decisive, then you have the chance to be a leader. These are two sides to the same coin.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

The authority you establish must emerge naturally from your character, from the particular strengths you possess.

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

To some degree it matters who’s in office, but it matters more how much pressure they’re under from the public.

Paris by night is a nightmare now. It is not a cliche anymore.

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Let the path be open to talent.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

I don’t know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It’s also changing how we’re telling stories.

All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don’t recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

I’m the president of the United States. I’m not the emperor of the United States.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‚Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?‘ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

I have a cult-like following because I exemplify what it is to be a human being.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

I think that people are tired. They’re tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

I’ve seen how the issues that come across a president’s desk are always the hard ones – the problems where no amount of data or numbers will get you to the right answer.

There is nothing so stable as change.

The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

When I cut my hair, the whole sound changed, my style changed.

The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history.

I will only hire someone to work directly for me if I would work for that person. It’s a pretty good test.

The British people know that, given strong leadership, time, and a little bit of hope, the forces of good ultimately rally and triumph over evil.

When I was running training, we would fire a couple of leaders from every SEAL team because they couldn’t lead. And 99.9% of the time, it wasn’t a question of their ability – it was a question of their ability to listen.

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Remember that the essence of authority is that people willingly follow your lead.

Let me even say before I even get inaugurated, during the transition we are going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America.

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

And now, of course this is another thing I didn’t count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling.

Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.

Wealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

I don’t want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He’s a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.