History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

It’s a real strength for me that I’ve never minded the training process. It’s something I enjoy. I really like being in the gym or, certainly, on the field.

Diana Ross is a big inspiration to all of us. We all grew up watching everything about her – her mike placement, her grace, her style and her class.

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

I’m so tough and so bad, I can be humble and lift another guy up.

I was impressed with what someone like Karl Lagerfeld built and did and the house that he made, but there was never really a female figure I wanted to emulate.

Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.

Political courage is not political suicide.

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

Up until the 1920s, everyone thought the universe was essentially static and unchanging in time.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It’s not like Egypt, where you’re going to get murdered by the security forces.

Let me tell you what I literally told every world leader I’ve met with, and I’ve met them all: It’s never, never, never been a good bet to bet against America. We have the finest fighting force in the world.

Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.

My mum passing away wasn’t funny, but that funeral and what I went through, the things that happened, looking back at it, there were funny moments. You have to be strong enough to look back at it, to sit and assess the situation.

I have a self-defense mind. I’ve had it all my life.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

To lead people walk behind them.

When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.

I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.

It’s lack that gives us inspiration. It’s not fullness.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn’t accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else’s insistence or someone else’s whim or convenience.

There’s hope for everyone. That’s what makes the world go round.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

When I’m writing a record, I kind of don’t listen to much music. Just because I want to be inspired solely on the emotion; just based on how it feels.

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

For me, it’s about becoming a mogul, owning my own projects, and establishing myself as a funding producer. That’s what’s big to me. The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I’m in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today – and in fact we have forgotten.

When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed. He said, ‚Look, here’s what happened.‘

Women fight for democracy and engage in the world. But they shouldn’t try and be copying men and be masculine; they should anchor on the home and build on those fundamentals.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.

The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

Life loves the liver of it.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.

Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.

We can’t afford not to educate girls and give women the power and the access that they need.