I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

I will never relent in defending America – whatever it takes.

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you’re going to be a second-rate artist.

I have my flaws too, but I am a professional who doesn’t like to miss or lose.

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Although the big word on the left is ‚compassion,‘ the big agenda on the left is dependency.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

All I have to say is basically if performing, singing, acting, and dancing is what you want to do, then you just have to do it – no matter where it is.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!

I know I’m a good professional, I know that no one’s harder on me than myself and that’s never going to change, under any circumstances.

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

A lot of artists fail when they try to act, and they flop. So when I get into acting, it’s going to be to do it well, something good, something of quality. I want people to say, ‚Wow, that movie‘ – or that show or whatever – ‚turned out really well.‘

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself to drive me. I’m a very driven person. I have passion that almost scares people, just to be successful and make it no matter what.

If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Fidelity and allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by the law of the land; for were that faith and allegiance more than what the law requires, we would swear ourselves slaves and the King absolute; whereas, by the law, we are free men, notwithstanding those oaths.

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

It’s a rule to give all, and it can make the difference if you work more. If you don’t have to give all, and you still win, what’s this?

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

As a producer, as a CEO of Hartbeat Productions, I am making deals to put my company in place to win, to put my staff to work so that while all this stuff is going on, they’re in the kitchen cooking. So it’s understanding the longevity of the entertainment business; you get out of it what you put into it.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

We’re going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.

Defeat doesn’t finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits.

If you get something right, you really feel it, right in your chest, on stage. I think it’s an incomparable experience.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that.

Collegiality is crucial to the success of our mission. We could not do the job the Constitution assigns to us if we didn’t – to use one of Justice Antonin Scalia’s favorite expressions – ‚Get over it!‘

I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other – and we still are.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

I’m an idealist without illusions.

I don’t want to hear the word ‚can’t.‘

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

I remember the last three days that I was president, I never went to bed at all. I never went to bed until we had negotiated the final release of the hostages.

Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.