Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

The thing I really care about is the mission, making the world open.

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn’t do in international cricket, but that’s how you learn.

You don’t go to Notre Dame to learn something; you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

America is a Nation with a mission – and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace – a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

It’s better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

It’s amazing: I am a New Yorker. It’s strange; I never thought I would be.

Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.

I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

For me, time is the greatest mystery of all. The fact is that we’re dreaming all the time. That’s what really gets me. We have a fathomless lake of unconsciousness just beneath our skulls.

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

I saw a picture of myself when I came out of the hospital. I didn’t recognize myself.

I’ve learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don’t have that?

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

We can have no ’50-50′ allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.

Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It’s very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

To summarize, draft resistance can make use of the inegalitarian nature of American society as a technique for increasing the cost of American aggression, and it threatens values that are important to those in a decision-making position.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do – anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of – your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.

It’s hard to be humble, when you’re as great as I am.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

So let’s be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

Everything’s intentional. It’s just filling in the dots.

A diplomatic solution that puts significant and verifiable constraints on Iran’s nuclear program represents the best and most sustainable chance to ensure that America, Israel, the entire Middle East will never be menaced by a nuclear-armed Iran.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there’s always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity?

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn’t, then why would you say I am.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

When you stand for something, you’ve got to stand for it all the way, not half way.

Before you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.

I’m not a natural born performer.

The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don’t know nothing. I mean, that’s my life lesson.