On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we’re going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

A leader who confines his role to his people’s experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people’s experience runs the risk of not being understood.

What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

I don’t want to be fake. I’m just being me. And I have the power to break stereotypes and whatever useless rules that society puts on us.

To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.

I think it’s so important for girls to love themselves and to treat their bodies respectfully.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.

I think women want freedom. They want to be empowered. They want hope. They want love; they want all the things that I want, and I’m not afraid to say those things and act on them, and I think that’s why they identify with me.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

I want people to follow their dreams, yes… but I’m not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers… I want to show them that there’s so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

Man is not made for defeat.

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Sadly, the truth is, there aren’t many people who can be put in high positions who won’t start thinking highly of themselves.

One of the roles of the Presidency is to lead a political party. Having a President in office is usually a huge advantage to a party because it gives the party a mouthpiece and an advocate at the highest level.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world.

When Hillary was First Lady, we went to the Beijing Women’s Conference. She courageously stood up and spoke out on behalf of human rights and women’s rights, inspiring millions to fight for a better future.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

Women feel empowered when they can do the things that are supposed to be only for men, you know? It breaks boundaries, it’s liberating, and it’s empowering when you feel like, ‚Well, I can do that, too.‘

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I’m learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, ‚I can’t go to Kmart. I can’t take my kids to the haunted house.‘

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate.

I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.

The wisest have the most authority.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.

The art of delegation is one of the key skills any entrepreneur must master.

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

I have some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever, I’m for anything life-affirmative. I’m for gay power, straight power, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered without oppressing anyone who’s different.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

And when a woman’s will is as strong as the man’s who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

I’ve been very fortunate.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

I’m interested in women’s health because I’m a woman. I’d be a darn fool not to be on my own side.

In business, if you realize you’ve made a bad decision, you change it.

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

That’s all I could ever hope for, to have a positive effect on women. ‚Cos women are powerful, powerful beings. But they’re also the most doubtful beings. They’ll never know – we’ll never know – how powerful we are.

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn’t controversial, that means he never stood for anything.