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.

I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I’ve been working nonstop since I was 15. I don’t even know how to chill out.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, ‚The Martian Chronicles.‘

We can’t afford to be killing one another.

There is every likelihood that the Jihadi movement, much of it highly critical of bin Laden, could have been split and undermined after 9/11.

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.

Though she be but little, she is fierce.

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

You can’t stop everything from happening. But we’ve gotten to a point where we’re certainly trying. If a car doesn’t have four hundred air bags in it, then it’s no good.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

Every night on the court I give my all, and if I’m not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.

Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

Basically, Islamic State is a combined al Qaeda and Lebanese Hezbollah on steroids, destabilizing the region, dissolving borders/changing the political geography in the Mid-east, and hardening political positions that make Mid-east peace-building more remote by the day.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.

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

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.

When I was 5, some financial things happened, and I moved seven times in a year. We moved from apartment to apartment, sometimes living with friends. My mom would always say, ‚Don’t get comfortable, because we may not be here long.‘

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

There are only two forces that unite men – fear and interest.

My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Sometimes God will deliver you from the fire, and other times God will make you fireproof.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

I know why we’re strong. I know why we have held together; I know why we are united: it’s because there’s always been a growing middle class.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

I’m always trying. Between every book, I think, ‚Well now, it’s time to get down to the serious stuff.‘

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for 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 allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I’m not afraid of my flaws.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough – when they are on the very brink of success.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

I want to represent… to the kids to draw strength from me. So they can see that everybody goes through something, but you can rise up and do your best. Just try.

You can’t choose up sides on a round world.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.