Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

I think a certain amount of stress in life is good. The stress of just working, which takes effort – I think it keeps you going.

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

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

I’m always asked, ‚What’s the secret to success?‘ But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.

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.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.

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

Working hard is very important. You’re not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don’t really give a toss whether they’re playing or not because they’re getting paid anyway.

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

God’s desire is that we excel.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

We should no longer measure our wealth and success in the graph that shows economic growth, but in the curve that shows the emissions of greenhouse gases.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

I don’t focus on the critics. Everyone who is making any difference in any field has critics. As long as I feel like I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing, then I don’t worry about it.

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

I won’t accept anything less than the best a player’s capable of doing… and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

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.

He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

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.

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

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

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t.

Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

Desire is the essence of a man.