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.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

In college, a loss is pretty devastating. That feeling kind of goes away in an 82-game season. You hate to lose, but you also have a lot more games to make up for it.

Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

I don’t believe in the school of hard knocks, although I’ve had them. All that stuff about whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger is so not true. Do you know what makes you stronger? When people treat you and your art with dignity.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

I’ve got a woman’s ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

It was like I was in a tunnel. Not only the tunnel under the hotel but the whole circuit was a tunnel. I was just going and going, more and more and more and more. I was way over the limit but still able to find even more.

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.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course, you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place, you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

I couldn’t ever go back home without being something. I probably would never have gone back home. That was definitely a big motivation. To get back home, and not empty-handed.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

How one life turns out is not dependent on what people do to us or what they don’t do for us.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another.

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They’re only powerful when you got your back turned.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

I don’t want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

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

When we trust God more than our feelings, it confuses the devil. I mean, when he throws you his best shot and he can’t budge you from believing God, he won’t know what to do with you anymore.

God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

Someone said to me, ‚If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?‘ My answer was then and still is, ‚If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.‘

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys.

You’re not a product of your nature. That is your genetic makeup or your nurture, the things that have happened to you. Of course those things affect you powerfully, but they do not determine you.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn’t have much to say about how they’d make it right. They want your vote, but they don’t want you to know their plan.

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.

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

Well begun is half done.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.

Synergy is better than my way or your way. It’s our way.

Black people in America, people from the struggle, immigrants, it’s no generational wealth that we are attached to, so we are tasked to create – in one generation – closing the gap. That’s why we so Doomsday about getting to the check: ‚cause it’s life or death for real.

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They’re solar-powered. If you drop them, they keep on being a book. You can find your place in microseconds. Books are really good at being books, and no matter what happens, books will survive.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that.

Before all else, be armed.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

‚My country, right or wrong‘ is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying ‚My mother, drunk or sober.‘