I have often been asked what I think about at the moment of take-off. Of course, no pilot sits and feels his pulse as he flies. He has to be part of the machine. If he thinks of anything but the task in hand, then trouble is probably just around the corner.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

I’ve always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it.

It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

Basically what I’m trying to tell you is that it’s almost impossible to drive a jet ski at night time unless you’re in a city with lights lit up so you can navigate. Besides being pitch black, that water turn black at night. Listen, I don’t recommend it.

Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.

Concentration of executive power, unless it’s very temporary and for specific circumstances, let’s say fighting world war two, it’s an assault on democracy.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.

It’s not that every single thing that happens on Facebook is gonna be good. This is humanity. People use tools for good and bad, but I think that we have a clear responsibility to make sure that the good is amplified and to do everything we can to mitigate the bad.

How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.

Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.

I’m a writer, not a professional runner. It’s fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

Politics, according to the Social Doctrine of the Church, is one of the highest forms of charity, because it serves the common good. I cannot wash my hands, eh? We all have to give something!

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

There are so many emotions that you’re feeling, you can get stifled by them if you’re feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment – one simple, simple feeling – and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.

Writing is challenging work because it’s so easy to get consumed with how it’s going, what’s going to happen to it, who’s going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.

The book, ’12 Rules For Life,‘ is a very serious book. There’s elements of humor in it, but I’m trying to struggle with things at the deepest possible level and to explain to people why it’s necessary to live a upstanding and noble and moral and truthful and responsible life, and why there’s hell to pay if you don’t do that.

I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.

The glory of being a carrier pilot has certainly worn off.

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you’re held responsible for everything, but you don’t always have control of everything, right?

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don’t seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

It’d be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren’t kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I’m not a baby sitter.

Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.

We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.

I think if someone gets kicked in the face it is their fault – they watched the foot come towards their face.

Many people listen to what I have to say and I appear a lot in media, so therefore I influence a lot of people and therefore I have a bigger responsibility because I have a bigger platform.

Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.

I tend not to look back and dwell on a project once it is finished.

I laugh and joke, but I don’t get distracted very easily.

I’m just looking to learn, grow, stay focused, and become a better fighter and a better athlete.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

Mission presidents hold keys of responsibility for the welfare, safety, and success of their missionaries.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

After you finish a book, you know, you’re dead. But no one knows you’re dead. All they see is the irresponsibility that comes in after the terrible responsibility of writing.

Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don’t look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

In T20, you don’t have time to get distracted – it’s so quick, you have to run around in the field, and while batting, you don’t actually think about anything else.

The worst way of flying, I think, is standby. It never works. That’s why they call it standby. You end up standing there going, ‚Bye!‘

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.

It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.

Competition gives me energy. It keeps me focused.

I get really motivated when I put on the India jersey. It is a responsibility, so I want to perform in the best way I can.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

You gotta water your plants. Nobody can water them for you.

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.