Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It’s the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.

Africa will thrive.

We don’t need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.

I hate victims who respect their executioners.

When you write your first book aged 25 or so, you have 25 years of experience, albeit much of it juvenile experience. The second book comes after an extra year sitting in bookshops. Pretty soon, you begin to run on empty.

I’d love to do a duet, always wanted to work with Madonna, but she never asked.

Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch me casually, I may get intimidated and bite you. So please be careful.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth; it’s a shield.

A war is a horrible thing, but it’s also a unifier of countries.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

At some point in time, you definitely have to go drama. Not to say that you’re going drama just because everybody else does it. You do it to challenge yourself. You do it because, naturally, in the profession of acting, you want to show growth. You want to say that you take the craft seriously.

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.

For more than a decade, I led an organization that put on an elaborate Christmas program each December. It was a big production, with over 250 people participating in more than 20 performances. By the end of the season, everyone who participated was exhausted.

When your physical energy and mind combines, it’s great.

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

If two smart, intelligent, clever guys sit together on a table, and you both want the same, where can be the problem? We all want to be successful.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

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.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

China is certainly an important player in the global economy, and a widespread AIDS epidemic would threaten that growth.

Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.

No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.

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!

The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

The knowledge that we have brother scouts working in the same uniform, to the same ends, in the same way, in all corners of the Empire, cannot but make scouts proud of their brotherhood, and cannot fail to bring them into closer sympathy.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.

If the team keeps changing then everything has to keep changing.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

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.

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

There is no education like adversity.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don’t have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I’m sure he didn’t call everybody jerks.

Through the right people focusing on the right things, we can, in time, get on top of a lot if not most of the problems of this world. And that’s what a number of us are trying to do.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

It feels good to have your work respected again.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

I would like to express the thoughts of a man who, having finally penetrated the partitions and ceilings of little countries, little coteries, little sects, rises above all these categories and finds himself a child and citizen of the Earth.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

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

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one.

For Christians, who believe they are created in the image of God, it is the Godhead, diversity in unity and the three-in-oneness of God, which we and all creation reflect.

Bring them on.