Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

If Jesus were here today, he wouldn’t be riding around on a donkey. He’d be taking a plane, he’d be using the media.

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

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

One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials.

As supportive as my hometown is, in my high school, there are people who would probably walk up to me and punch me in the face. There’s a select few that will never like me. They don’t like what I stand for. They don’t like somebody who stands for being sober, who stands for anything happy. They’re going to be negative no matter what.

Everybody is entertained to death.

If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

It’s amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

I don’t think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

At places like Davos, people like to tell success stories. But their financial success has come with an unthinkable price tag. And on climate change, we have to acknowledge we have failed.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

An overflow of good converts to bad.

I don’t really read a lot of newspapers. I don’t pay attention to what is being said or written about me. I’ve had lots of experiences in the past when I got too much into it. That sort of diverts your focus.

You do get certain publications in the States where, if things don’t go according to plan, they flip the story and it becomes very negative.

People and organizations don’t grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses.

I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don’t even get printed.

You can say that 2016 was my finest. It went well for the national team, started by winning the SAFF Cup, we reached the finals of AFC Cup, we reached the semis of ISL. I think it was a fruitful season.

Purposes, plans, and achievements of men may all disappear like yon cloud upon the mountain’s summit; but, like the mountain itself, the things which are of God shall stand fast for ever and ever.

Over the years, I’ve learned that a confident person doesn’t concentrate or focus on their weaknesses – they maximize their strengths.

We’re news junkies in my house.

When you’re faced with an opponent, the media asks the questions, and I answer truthfully. I don’t hold back.

Sports are basically our way of feeling sorry for ourselves. Most men can’t become athletes. We’re watching guys who actually made it. We see them dunking and making touchdowns. Then we think about ourselves when we were younger.

Hopefully I won’t be the last big splash at Under Armour.

For all the supporters of Tesla over the years, and it’s been several years now and there have been some very tough times, I’d just like to say thank you very much. I deeply appreciate the support, particularly through the darkest times.

I don’t think the Christian Right dominates America in the way some in the media believe they do.

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it.

Journalism largely consists of saying ‚Lord Jones is Dead‘ to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.

In comedy, my strengths are improvisation.

I’m not besotted with the notion of being on CNN to the point that I’m going to suddenly morph into Anderson Cooper or Christiane Amanpour. I’m not a foreign correspondent.

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it’s like a battery: you’ve got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

Newspaper readership is still growing in India.

I know that if I had a television in my flat I would convince myself that everything on it was really interesting. I would say, ‚I’m a Celebrity – Get Me Out of Here!‘ is so sociologically fascinating that I think I’d better watch.

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

It doesn’t matter who you are – if you dream big and if you work really hard, you can achieve unimaginable results, and that’s really good for the nation.

Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.

‚They‘ are the people that don’t believe in you, that say that you won’t succeed. We stay away from ‚They.‘

I’m a singer, not a politician, and I think you don’t want the two to get confused. It’s not OK to be on CNN talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that your new album is coming out in six months.

We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.

When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

I read the NY Times but I don’t trust all of it.

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

I carry the flag of Ireland all the time. I want to represent my country.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I’m super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.

If someone told me I could play two Asian Cup finals, I wouldn’t have believed it.

Weak character will neutralize all of the other possible good qualities a person might possess.

Bitterness is cancer – it eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure.

It’s cool to be recognised by your peers.

I would honestly say that with all the awards and all the other things that I’ve done in my life, Dollywood is one of the greatest dreams that I’ve ever had come true – I am so proud of that I can’t even begin to tell you, Dollywood is real special to me.

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.

Of course awards matter.