Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

We need a president who will choose to do what’s best for the country, even when it doesn’t personally benefit them.

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

Voters quickly forget what a man says.

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

We cannot have communion with Christ till we are in union with Him; and we cannot have communion with the Church till we are in vital union with it.

Madonna, I think, is the greatest visual musical artist that we’ve ever had. If you look at her photo log, the photographers that she was able to work with throughout her career framed her in the proper way. It was the proper context. It was that visual that made sure that everything was gonna cut through in a certain way.

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

There’s a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.

You know, there is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don’t know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel.

Yeah, I wasn’t chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn’t planned by anyone.

God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.

That’s the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

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

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

Our whole life is set up in the path of least resistance. We don’t want to suffer. We don’t want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we’re living our lives in a very comfortable area. There’s no growth in that.

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top – I’m afraid that’s not quite right.

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

Be not simply good – be good for something.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

People’s blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.

International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money. You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

We don’t believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans.

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.

You gotta water your plants. Nobody can water them for you.

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

The path to the CEO’s office should not be through the CFO’s office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

I tell my fellow reggaetoneros, keep giving it your all and bring more creativity.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

When you become a Christian, something truly amazing happens: God comes to live inside your heart. You become the home of God.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

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.

Small aim is a crime.

Back in the day, what motivated me was overcoming myself. Now I believe in being a leader. I’ve done it all – I’m good. Now, it’s about setting an example for others to follow. I can’t just talk it – I have to live it.

I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

I think I’m like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.

Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King’s daughter, I would have gone nevertheless.