Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

I had very good support from Democrats and Republicans all throughout my administration. I had a very high batting average. We added more jobs per year in my four years than any other president since the Second World War.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

I’m just a kid that defied the odds. I’m just a kid that ignored the doubt. I’m just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I’m going to continue to go all the way.

When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.

In cricket, my superhero is Sachin Tendulkar. He has always been my hero and will continue to remain so. Apart from him and outside cricket, my mother has remained my inspiration. Whatever difficult time I had faced, she was always there for me. She has given me all the strength. She maintained her composure and supported me in tough times.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

I’m not a real movie star. I’ve still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.

We’re not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

If there’s one thing that’s certain in business, it’s uncertainty.

You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That’s a part of it.

My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough, as the same cat crouches.

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn’t eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Seuss inspired me to try cauliflower!

Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

The Qataris have cut off support for the most extreme elements of terrorist organizations.

My mother had a saying: ‚Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.‘

I love to flirt, and I’ve never met a man I didn’t like.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation’s braggart lords.

Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

All of my writing is God-given.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

When I get married, it’ll be no secret.

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

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

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

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

Writing is such a strange, utterly mysterious process. First, there was nothing; then, suddenly, there was something. I don’t know where thoughts are born. Where the hell does it come from? I don’t know. I really don’t know.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

If you like it you should enjoy it! Moderation in everything. If there’s things you really love, you should enjoy. You get one life, so you should enjoy it.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.

In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.

In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

When everything works best, it’s not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It’s when you’re mad with it, it’s when it’s stuffed in your ears, your nostrils, under your fingernails. It’s when there’s no hope but that.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.

Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.