It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

I shook up the world, I shook up the world.

I focus on my own job.

My mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.

There’s room for role models who make mistakes.

The more you know the less you need to say.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

You are victors, not victims!

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

You do the policy, I’ll do the politics.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

I do believe in the old saying, ‚What does not kill you makes you stronger.‘ Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

You know, T can stand for anything. T stand for working hard. T stand for loving thy neighbor. T stand for feeding the hungry. T stand for just working, working, working, being happy on the set, you know, lifting everybody’s spirits. T stands for just a nice guy.

A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there’s only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It’s the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

I don’t have any regrets. I made all my own decisions.

I will not be triumphed over.

Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn’t any good reason to refer to it.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, ‚I want to get out and become like him‘. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.

I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don’t know anything about.

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.

Opportunity makes a thief.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

I read everything, but generally more fact than fiction – especially autobiographies and biographies. I’ve read ‚Long Walk to Freedom‘ by Nelson Mandela at least twice on holiday. Every time, I’m totally awed by his vision, strength and forgiveness. I feel honoured to have got to know him and his wonderful wife Graca over the years.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man’s pride in his work.

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

I’m substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They’re sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they’re hitting back and forth.

Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Nothing is stopping me from doing what I love to do.