Giving responsibility is the key to success with boys, especially with the rowdiest and most difficult boys.

My kids are the funniest two human beings there are.

To win is always good for the feeling of the whole team.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

He that can have patience can have what he will.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

You definitely want your kids to understand their heritage, but I don’t want my kids to just focus on being black. They are people. I don’t want them to judge other people or to be judged. I want them to be good people, so good people will treat them accordingly. I preach that to my kids and everything else falls into place.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

I want to go down in the history books with what I’ve achieved.

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

I had my first baby at twenty-one.

If I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don’t like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.

No parent is perfect; we all can look back and think of things we could’ve done to help our children be better prepared for adulthood. And sometimes it’s best to admit it to them and encourage them to learn from our mistakes.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I’ll show you a poorly uniformed leader.

I try to make it look easy, but the behind-the-scenes stuff is the challenge.

I’m an entrepreneur. I’m a young mogul. I’m blessed.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it – not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.

I’m proud to play for Real Madrid because I have fun; when you no longer have fun it’s a sign that it’s time to leave. For now though, I’m happy here at the greatest club in the world.

I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

I don’t think a coach becomes the right coach until he wins a championship.

I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body.

You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

When you have two busy kids running around the house, returning e-mails is a task, let alone surfing the web.

After you finish a book, you know, you’re dead. But no one knows you’re dead. All they see is the irresponsibility that comes in after the terrible responsibility of writing.

There’s different kinds of laughs. It’s like a baseball lineup: this guy’s your power hitter, this guy gets on base, this guy works out walks. If everybody does their job, we’re gonna win.

We’ve persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people – a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it’s time to turn the page.

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they’re gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you’re going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

I always thought that if I made it big or got successful at what I had started out to do, that I wanted to come back to my part of the country and do something great, something that would bring a lot of jobs into this area.

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.

I want a president with a record of public service, someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase fame and fortune for ourselves: we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

It’s much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.

I’m not great at bedtime stories. Bedtime stories are supposed to put the kid to sleep. My kid gets riled up and then my wife has to come in and go, ‚All right! Get out of the room.‘

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

I’m a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I’m even afraid of it – it’s a learned affectation and it’s just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.

I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.