My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.

I used to carry my father’s Bible and put it on the pulpit so he could preach.

In my heart, I’m just a kid from the council houses. I can remember the old cottage and my dad coming round with the tin bath. I’m not a rich man.

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

I sang a song at my sister’s wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

Spiritual worldliness kills! It kills the soul! It kills the Church!

I grew up in San Francisco. And so I’m informed in a certain kind of way about, you know, believing in democracy and believing in America. And I’m a very ardent patriot.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

I’m about being the best.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.

Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof.

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

My wife, a schoolteacher, very disciplined. If you think I’m tough, trust me, and wait till you see when the children are on the naughty step. It’s hilarious. So we decided that I’m going to work like a donkey and provide amazing support for the family.

Every utopia – let’s just stick with the literary ones – faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don’t fit in?

Phil Niekro and his brother were pitching against each other in Atlanta. Their parents were sitting right behind home plate. I saw their folks more that day than they did the whole weekend.

Every day or two, I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip which is incessantly going on there, circulating either from mouth to mouth, or from newspaper to newspaper, and which, taken in homeopathic doses, was really as refreshing in its way as the rustle of leaves and the peeping of frogs.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

I’m not going to change the world. You’re not going to change the world. But we can help – we can all help.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

I love to sit and eat quietly and enjoy each bite, aware of the presence of my community, aware of all the hard and loving work that has gone into my food.

My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

People are always coming up to me and saying, ‚I heard your dad’s speech, and it’s really great.‘ And they’ll mention some place I didn’t even know my dad was going to.

A family looks for ways to support and inspire one another.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

Coaching wouldn’t be for me. No, certainly not.

You can do the same thing with $20 million that you would do with $50 million. So at a certain point in your life and in your career, you realise that it’s not about the money.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

I’m blessed to have such a tight-knit family that we can talk about anything. Whether we talk frequently or not, since we’re on separate ends of the country, there are a lot of moving parts, and we always stay tight and find that center ground that keeps us together.

I would counsel people to go to college, because it’s one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.

My next baby will be my new record.

I imagine I will spend my days traveling from country to country to visit our children, who I expect will live around the world.

My whole thing now is I know how to think properly to be successful in all aspects of my life. It’s not about ultra running or being a SEAL or pull-up records: it’s about if you want to be better you, have to change your perceived limitations and take the barriers down.

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

We don’t mature momentarily, but over the long-term.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

I don’t feel much pressure to fit in. I never have. I’ve always just wanted to do my thing. I have really good friends and good family, and if I don’t fit in somewhere else, I fit in at home.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

Ours is a nation of laws: of citizens who live under them and for the citizens who enforce them. So, to a community in Ferguson that is rightly hurting and looking for answers, let me call once again for us to seek some understanding rather than simply holler at each other. Let’s seek to heal rather than to wound each other.

I always teach myself calm and visualization stuff.

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

People invest in businesses that they believe have the leadership, mission and team to grow and operate profitably.

I think people take me as seriously as I want them to. They take me as seriously as I take myself – let’s put it that way.

My son has died of AIDS.

I’m not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

I don’t know if it’s changing already with ‚Joanne,‘ but my intention is to bring people together that don’t know each other and that would maybe feel awkward, but somehow be brought together by the music. That’s what I wanted to do. Because that is pure and authentic to my family history and what I stand for.