It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

I know I want to always do the best I can.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

Everybody has talent, it’s just a matter of moving around until you’ve discovered what it is.

It is unnecessary to say that Fidel Castro possesses the high qualities of a fighter and statesman: our path, our struggle, and our triumph we owed to his vision.

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

You can change your world by changing your words… Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.

We all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. When we do that, we never progress or get any better.

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.

I don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

I thank God I’m in a position where I can pick and choose – there are some roles I don’t play.

Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

If I’m going to get you to do stuff, I need to lead you. I can’t just order you to do it.

I learned a long time ago how to be coachable.

Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people’s opinions will rush in from all quarters.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

Talent is something that comes from within; it has nothing to do with age.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

I periodically realize every few years that the only person whose taste I really trust is me.

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

I knew ‚Crenshaw‘ had elevated me and distinguished me.

I just think you ought to talk straight with your people.

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

It’s time to stop thinking of the Republican Party as an exclusive club where your ideological card is checked at the door, and start thinking about how we can attract more solution-based leaders like Nathan Fletcher and Anthony Adams.

I’m gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we’re not being controlled, we’ll just do what we want.

The fact that you are willing to say, ‚I do not understand, and it is fine,‘ is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.

Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.

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

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants.