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.

Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

If someone is right for you, you’ll know it.

I think I’m like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.

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.

God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

The true cost to the world of a burger is far greater than the money you hand over to buy it.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

The sadness of the women’s movement is that they don’t allow the necessity of love. See, I don’t personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

I am confident that partnering my Dollywood Company with a great company like Gaylord will create something truly special.

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

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

You’re not a product of your nature. That is your genetic makeup or your nurture, the things that have happened to you. Of course those things affect you powerfully, but they do not determine you.

Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.

Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.

I tend to feel if people say they’re going to do something, they will, if given the chance.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

You gotta understand: I believe a woman should praise the man, the king. If you holding it down for your woman, I feel like the woman should praise. And the man should praise the queen.

Forces that you might think are utterly unrelated to creativity can have a big impact. Technology, obviously, but environment, too. Even financial structures can affect the actual content of a song. The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

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.

More businesses should be following Apple’s stance in encouraging more investment in sustainability.

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

The environment that we call society is created by past generations; we accept it, as it helps us to maintain our greed, possessiveness, illusion.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

Has Jesus saved me? I dare not speak with any hesitation here; I know He has. His Word is true; therefore, I am saved.

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

I adapt and I adjust to whatever environment I’m in.

A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?

As you heat the planet up, it’s just like boiling a pot.

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it’s hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

There’s plenty about God that I don’t understand and can’t explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He’s for us.

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

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

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.

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

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed – it is a process of elimination.

I’m just telling you, God permits things in our lives sometimes for reasons that we do not understand yet because of the spiritual level that we’re on. We can’t have any understanding of it, because we’re not at a place of spiritual growth yet where we understand the deeper things of God.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

My evidence that I am saved does not lie in the fact that I preach, or that I do this or that. All my hope lies in this: that Jesus Christ came to save sinners. I am a sinner, I trust Him, then He came to save me, and I am saved.

Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

As president, I’m committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.