I don’t kiss nobody’s butt.

I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn’t ever have to rely on the press for my information.

I’m much more comfortable and confident running out on the field in front of 70,000 people instead of standing in front of a camera trying to say some lines. The people who do that as a profession are very talented because it’s certainly not easy.

Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God’s final word on where your lips end.

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it’s a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.

I can move any crowd.

I’m extremely willful to win, and I respond to challenges. Scoring titles and stuff like that… it sounds, well, I don’t care how it sounds – to me, scoring comes easy. It’s not a challenge to me to win the scoring title, because I know I can.

I’m never nervous.

There’s no reason why I can’t be a mogul. When I step into a room and I’m there to have a conversation, if it pertains to business, I want to be respected as a guy who knows what he’s talking about. And that, to me, holds more weight than anything else.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Honestly, I always believed in myself. For real, for real.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

I wasn’t a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know.

When I say something’s going to happen, it’s going to happen.

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn’t be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.

I work hard for the audience. It’s entertainment. I don’t need validation.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?

I’m crazy and I don’t pretend to be anything else.

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

I don’t see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that’s almost inconceivable.

I guess I have a little bit of an ego. I’m confidently cocky, you might say.

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.

Magic has five championships. I have five championships. I’m pretty sure we both know what we’re doing.

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what’s mine.

If you don’t stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backwards.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

Indians felt despondent about Indian governance. Changing that atmosphere of gloom was a very challenging task, and I faced many difficulties in rectifying the situation and bringing back confidence and hope.

I’m a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.

I think, when you are growing up, you have to pull apart from what your mother wants or needs. You’ve got to go your own way, and that’s what I did.

I’m of the school of thought where if you can’t sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don’t know you think.

Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

One of life’s terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they’re doing.

Without a tutor to help me in the study of Marxism-Leninism, I was no more than a theorist and, of course, had total confidence in the Soviet Union.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Bob Houghton is a great coach and I am confident that the national team will do well under him.

Someone said to me, ‚If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?‘ My answer was then and still is, ‚If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.‘

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

If you ever need anything please don’t hesitate to ask someone else first.

I’m ugly.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.

I always had faith in my creative capacity.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

Facts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

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.

Clothing & fashion are kind of my security blanket, almost.

For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite for independence.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.