Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

To go to the field and train and understand when days are less, that’s where experience helps.

Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it’s digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules – not just for governments but for private companies.

I can tell you from experience that God’s help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

The first democratic revolution was England in the 1640s.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it’s my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.

Though lovers be lost, love shall not.

Thanks to my fans that have been with me from the beginning, I was able to sell out arenas on my own.

I always thought Johnny Carson was just brilliant, and I used to watch him and all the comics that would be on the show every night – and I’d dream about it being me.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.

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.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

There was a time Michael Jackson couldn’t get his video on MTV because he was considered to be ‚urban.‘ The Michael Jackson. So I literally have to be the Michael Jackson of apparel in order to break down the doors for everyone who will come after I’m gone, after I’m dead.

I’ve been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

I will never relent in defending America – whatever it takes.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

You have to believe in your process. You have to believe in the things that you are doing to help the team win. I think you have to take the good with the bad.

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,‘ he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. ‚Shake it off. Stop complainin‘. Stop grumblin‘. Stop cryin‘. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It’s a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

You just wait. I’m going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn’t have much to say about how they’d make it right. They want your vote, but they don’t want you to know their plan.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

As a kid, I used to see how Sachin Tendulkar used to win matches under pressure for India in Sharjah or other places. So I was always keen to repeat the same in similar situations. I don’t take pressure on myself when I am in the middle. I love pressure, and I always believe that pressure makes you more focused.

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

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

The only way round is through.

Of course awards matter.

The best leaders understand the motivations of their team members and know their people – their lives and their families. But a leader must never grow so close to subordinates that one member of the team becomes more important than another, or more important than the mission itself.

The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.

I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees.

Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be… The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

We should measure welfare’s success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I’m doing, I always tell myself, ‚You can do better than this.‘

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

A good model of how to ‚work with the enemy‘ internally is presented by the Dalai Lama, in his endless caretaking of his soul as he confronts the Chinese government that invaded Tibet.

Civil disobedience’s main goal typically is to try to arouse and inspire others to join and do something. Well, sometimes that is a good tactic, sometimes not.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

What I have in common with the character in ‚Truman‘ is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

Remember that the essence of authority is that people willingly follow your lead.

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

I never expected any sort of success with ‚Mockingbird’… I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.

I don’t write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.