I’m no longer just a candidate. I’m the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn’t return. I’ve shared the pain of families who’ve lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who’ve lost their jobs.

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.

We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.

Gravitation is, so far, not understandable in terms of other phenomena.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

There’s nothing I have to hide or defend. I’m gonna live my life. And there are times when people wanna try to attack me, and I don’t know why, but they will. And that’s okay.

We’re a blip in the existence of the universe, and we’re constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other.

Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can’t make head nor tail out of it.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

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

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.

We tend to mistake music for the physical object.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

Your friend is your needs answered.

All leaders in the Lord’s Church are called by proper authority. No prophet or any other leader in this Church, for that matter, has ever called himself or herself. No prophet has ever been elected.

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely – the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears – when you give your whole attention to it.

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

Chavez, who came out of the ranks of the Venezuelan Army, is methodical and tireless. I have observed him over the course of 17 years, since his first visit to Cuba. He is an extremely humanitarian and law-abiding person; he has never taken revenge on anybody.

You always admire what you really don’t understand.

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

If I can be a leader, I will.

Those who have a true understanding of America know that we have no desire for territorial expansion, for economic or other domination of other peoples. Such purposes are repugnant to our ideals of human freedom.

Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be Vice President of the United States of America. Let’s get that straight. She’s a truly close personal friend. She is qualified to be President of the United States of America. She’s easily qualified to be Vice President of the United States of America.

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

If you can’t read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn’t say I lived in a ghetto; I’d say I lived in the ‚hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.

We’re in very bad trouble if we don’t understand the planet we’re trying to save.

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

I am the Democratic Party’s candidate for president who happens also to be a Catholic. I do not speak for my church on public matters – and the church does not speak for me.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn’t make me feel good at all.

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

We need a president who will choose to do what’s best for the country, even when it doesn’t personally benefit them.

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.

The American people are bigger than any president. I suppose I have faith in my country and in what it is founded on and the values we hold dear.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.

A woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that.

There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt. And, of course, there are Christian monks and nuns who already use Buddhist methods in order to develop their devotion, compassion, and ability to forgive.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

I don’t take pictures when I’m with my kids, for the sake of my kids. It’s important when you’re as busy as I am that you give your kids your time when you’re with them, and nothing compromises that. I’ve been lucky enough to have fans that understand that.

I have never been bewildered for long in any fight with our enemies – I was Armed with Insight.

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

I’m not comparing myself with anyone, but I am very confident about my captaincy, as I have already led India and in the IPL also. I have confidence I can bring out each player’s ability fully and also give them a lot of confidence… I would like to stick to what I know best and what I have confidence in.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

It’s amazing if you just listen to people. They tell you all the time things that you can do for them, without even realizing what they’re doing. I’ve learned to take notice of those things and if it’s something that I feel God wants me to do, then I try to do that to add joy to their life.