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?

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

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.

An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.

Being acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it’s people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.

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.

From a young age, I learned to focus on the things I was good at and delegate to others what I was not good at. That’s how Virgin is run. Fantastic people throughout the Virgin Group run our businesses, allowing me to think creatively and strategically.

In karting, in the European races, you have the cameras and the film crews and you do interviews. At around 13 I’d already started doing bit of media and it just increases more and more with every level you take, especially when you get into cars – and when you hit F1 it’s an even higher step up. It’s something you get used to over time.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

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.

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

When you’re young, you look at television and think, there’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

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

I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don’t read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2’s audience.

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.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don’t think the press has understood me.

Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.

An overflow of good converts to bad.

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.

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.

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

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

I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.

It’s cool to be recognised by your peers.

The most violent show on TV is the six o’clock news.

We live in ugly times.

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

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

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

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

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

People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It’s scary.

I don’t want flowers or candy or anything like that. I just want somebody to say, ‚Wow, you’ve done a great job.‘

I’ve been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.

I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn’t ever have to rely on the press for my information.

On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians.

Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.

Many people listen to what I have to say and I appear a lot in media, so therefore I influence a lot of people and therefore I have a bigger responsibility because I have a bigger platform.

The authority you establish must emerge naturally from your character, from the particular strengths you possess.

I think the personal relationships I established mattered in terms of what I was able to get done. And I did bring women’s issues to the center of our foreign policy.

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.

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

If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

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

I make pop culture.