The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.

But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.

I’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

Being self-made means never making an excuse as to why you can’t take steps toward whatever your goal is.

I wasn’t trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term; somebody else made it up. But we were all outside the law: Kerouac, Miller, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Kesey; I didn’t have a gauge as to who was the worst outlaw. I just recognized allies: my people.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

We can take a ‚It was hard to get there.‘ But we ain’t taking no loss. We’re going to win.

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.

I remember the last three days that I was president, I never went to bed at all. I never went to bed until we had negotiated the final release of the hostages.

In the spring of 1929, I returned to the United States. I was homesick for this country. I had learned in my student days a great deal about the new physics. I wanted to pursue this myself, to explain it, and to foster its cultivation.

From my intimate discussions with President Obama, it is evident that India figures significantly in American geo-political, economic and strategic thinking. India is the largest democracy in the world.

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

We’re going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.

Even if soccer is not number one in the United States, they do things very well here. There’s much our country can learn from the U.S.A., because we all know that soccer is not the main game in India. We can still do more things, like provide better facilities for the players so they can perform well.

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced – the just demands of peace and security will be met – or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

Many people, especially in the U.S., see countries like Sweden or Norway or Finland as role models – we have such a clean energy sector, and so on. That may be true, but we are not role models.

A record deal doesn’t make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.

Winning takes precedence over all. There’s no gray area. No almosts.

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‚Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

I don’t want to hear the word ‚can’t.‘

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

The U.S. immigration laws are bad – really, really bad. I’d say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government’s name.

I live on the West Coast of the United States, and yet the air that I breathe is sometimes the same air that was being breathed in China the day before.

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

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

I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

You know, not to sound corny or nuthin‘, but I felt like a fighter comin‘ up, man. I felt like, you know, I’m being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.

In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

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

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

NATO’s essentially run by the United States.

You either make dust or eat dust.

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there… and still on your feet.

The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

Giving up cannot be an option.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

That’s when you know you’re the greatest: when you’re the greatest, and people still put odds against you.

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.