First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her – for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys.

I always believe that there should come a time when your energy, speed, stamina should combine well with your brains.

All I do is work out. Oh my God! Half my life is spent in a gym somewhere, sweating.

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.

I like the fact that Melbourne always seems to support their chefs and promote them in ways I find really admirable.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

Our vision and commitment is towards the country’s progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.

I can’t say this enough – the food that you put into your bodies can actually help you get better grades. And it can also affect your performance in sports and other activities too. You see, when you give your body the best possible fuel, you have more energy, you’re stronger, you think more quickly.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.

The nuclear approach I’m involved in is called a traveling-wave reactor, which uses waste uranium for fuel. There’s a lot of things that have to go right for that dream to come true – many decades of building demo plants, proving the economics are right. But if it does, you could have cheaper energy with no CO2 emissions.

One of the things that I have admired about India is the spiritualism of the people.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

I’m doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.

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

I desire to press forward for direction to my Master in all things; but as to trusting to my own obedience and righteousness, I should be worse than a fool and ten times worse than a madman.

Don’t get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

I think Pat Robertson is a terrific fellow.

A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

The first rap CD that I had, it was so different for me. The energy, the wordplay, all that caught my attention, and I liked it.

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.

Luck is not chance, it’s toil; fortune’s expensive smile is earned.

The notion that before you even set out to go to Thailand, you say, ‚I’m not interested,‘ or you’re unwilling to try things that people take so personally and are so proud of and so generous with, I don’t understand that, and I think it’s rude. You’re at Grandma’s house, you eat what Grandma serves you.

A promise must never be broken.

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

I have all the admiration in the world for somebody like Bono, who really puts himself on the line and tries actively to do something about our world situation.

I’m always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I’m listening to it.

To feel not only submitted but willing to be anything or nothing as the Lord wills it – this is, in truth, to sing a song to our Well Beloved.

I believe that Jesus was, you know, the Son of God. And I understand that… we need to be really, really respectful to people who find that ridiculous and… preposterous.

During my first years in the Sierra, I was ever calling on everybody within reach to admire them, but I found no one half warm enough until Emerson came. I had read his essays, and felt sure that of all men he would best interpret the sayings of these noble mountains and trees. Nor was my faith weakened when I met him in Yosemite.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.

We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe.

There are people in the world who aren’t necessarily Christians, but they’re just naturally nice people who do a lot for other people. Those people will almost always be prosperous people.

He that does good to another does good also to himself.

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one’s own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

We get the exciting result that the total energy of the universe is zero. Why this should be so is one of the great mysteries – and therefore one of the important questions of physics. After all, what would be the use of studying physics if the mysteries were not the most important things to investigate?

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.

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

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

When I get on a roll with something, it’s really hard for me to put it down unfinished.

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.

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

It’s very inexpensive to give a compliment.

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.