The other day the President said, I know you’ve had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.

Some day I shall be President.

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that’s all I ever was associated with.

Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

I wouldn’t ever say if you’re having tough times then there must be something wrong with you or your attitude. Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, stay faith-filled.

I don’t think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you – when life opens that door for you, I should say – I think it’s important to be giving, to return the love back.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president… is morally treasonable to the American public.

I can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn’t mean I won’t run.

There’s nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demanding, sometimes divisive love, but love it is.

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek – I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

He incurs a fearful amount of guilt who in the least promotes the aim of the Evil One by trampling upon a tender conscience in a child.

The British people know that, given strong leadership, time, and a little bit of hope, the forces of good ultimately rally and triumph over evil.

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

I’ve taught a lot about prayer over the years and how it is really just talking to God.

What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all – the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

I’m going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: ‚Lord, remember me.‘

Whenever I’m confused about something, I ask God to reveal the answers to my questions, and he does.

The infinite faith I have in people’s ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

Whether we’re happy with our circumstances or not, giving God praise is so important.

I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

We do not pray to God to instruct Him as to what He should do; neither for a moment must we presume to dictate the method of the divine working.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer’s hand.

Now from a distance, I look back on what the Corps taught me: to think like men of action, and to act like men of thought!

The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate.

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

God doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face. You know, I prayed about it a long, long, long, long, long time, because there again, I wouldn’t want to do anything that I felt was going to be offensive to God.

Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.

Real living is living for others.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

We named the book ‚Extreme Ownership‘ because we really found that when we looked at not only at leaders but at teams that were the most successful, we found that the ones that had this attitude of extreme ownership were the ones that did the best, and it’s definitely an attitude that I had.

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

I do the dishes every night – other people volunteer, but I like the way I do it.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.

The great thing about having a bunch of kids is they just remind you that you’re the person who takes them to go poop!

The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument… an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

When Jesus comes to live in our hearts, the seed of holiness is planted.

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn’t. In fact, I didn’t even know you were supposed to have one.