I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant – Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world – including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don’t let it get the best of you.

Some people take defeat and losses a certain way. You see how some fighters take losses.

I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They’re only powerful when you got your back turned.

With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got.

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I’m happier now than before I developed the condition.

I don’t lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.

The facts tell us that no religious Faith releases – or ever has released at any moment in History – a higher degree of warmth, a more intense dynamism of unification than the Christianity of our own day – and the more Catholic it is, the truer my words.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.

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

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind – you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.

Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.

How fortunate I was to be alive and a lawyer when, for the first time in United States history, it became possible to urge, successfully, before legislatures and courts, the equal-citizenship stature of women and men as a fundamental constitutional principle.

People want to tear me down, they were going to knife me anyway.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

If there’s one thing that’s certain in business, it’s uncertainty.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

It’s important that we invest in America – literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can’t let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‚indoctrination‘, we might say – exercised through the mass media.

Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It’s not true that I’m happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

If you have the ability to pick yourself up by the bootstraps and start over, you come out stronger because you learn from whatever mistakes you made.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

The appropriate response to terrorist crimes is police work, which has been successful worldwide.

I’ve had a lot of success; I’ve had failures, so I learn from the failure.

There are certain things that bother me and certain things that don’t. Personal attacks on me? I think I’m just so used to it.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Synergy is better than my way or your way. It’s our way.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

I think every entertainer’s had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can’t remember everything all the time, and especially if you’re having hard times personally, things going on that you – you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

There are people out there who hate me and who say I’m arrogant, vain, and whatever. That’s all part of my success. I am made to be the best.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.

In order for the United States to do the right things for the long term, it appears to be helpful for us to have the prospect of humiliation. Sputnik helped us fund good science – really good science: the semiconductor came out of it.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life.

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

I think if you follow anyone home, whether they live in Houston or London, and you sit at their dinner table and talk to them about their mother who has cancer or their child who is struggling in school, and their fears about watching their lives go by, I think we’re all the same.

As I’ve said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis‘ future.