I hate letting my teammates down. I know I’m not going to make every shot. Sometimes I try to make the right play, and if it results in a loss, I feel awful. I don’t feel awful because I have to answer questions about it. I feel awful in that locker room because I could have done something more to help my teammates win.

With tech companies, whoever’s the leader is always questioned, you know. They say, ‚Is this the end of them?‘ And – there’s more – more times people think that’s the case than it really is the case.

I have a big gay and lesbian following and they’ve been very loyal and kind to me.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

Of course it would be nice for everybody and myself if we could win but we can still have a personal or a team win if we achieve a target that is effectively a win for us.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

I always entertain the notion that I’m wrong, or that I’ll have to revise my opinion. Most of the time that feels good; sometimes it really hurts and is embarrassing.

Don’t compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

There is no doubt that some plant food, such as oatmeal, is more economical than meat, and superior to it in regard to both mechanical and mental performance. Such food, moreover, taxes our digestive organs decidedly less, and, in making us more contented and sociable, produces an amount of good difficult to estimate.

My music seems to have a bigger mission than I have, which is very soothing but also very strange because people see more in me than I see, which can be terrifying.

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

My father wasn’t perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there.

It’s hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

I’m a mentor to anybody who’s interested.

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

I’m not this horrible, evil person.

I am worrying about my country. I feel I have a responsibility as a novelist to do something.

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.

Most people don’t like change. They revolt against it unless they can clearly see the advantage it brings. For that reason, when good leaders prepare to take action or make changes, they take people through a process to get them ready for it.

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

The authority you establish must emerge naturally from your character, from the particular strengths you possess.

Never neglect details. When everyone’s mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.

Such as we are made of, such we be.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

I’ve never dropped anyone I believed in.

The world can criticize me, but l can always criticize it back.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.

A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

And I think it’s that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

I know I have a responsibility to the fans.

Be the chief but never the lord.

Still and all, why bother? Here’s my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people’s personalities and adding some of your own experience.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

I don’t write so much now. I’m getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

Faith never makes a confession.

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

I don’t mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team.

A lot of times, you could play me just the laughs from my set, and I could tell you, from the laugh, what the joke was. Because they match.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.

We can’t all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.

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.

Maybe ‚loner‘ is too strong a word, but I’ve always enjoyed being on my own.

I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids‘ dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We’ve all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.