There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

I’ve done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price – which has been the case most of the time.

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, ‚Jackie, are you scared?‘ Of course I’m scared. I’m not Superman.

That’s correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write.

Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

It’s just hard to meet new people, in my position.

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

As president, I’m committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here.

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.

I’m not a man deeply interested in technology. It eludes me.

I found it hard to be young. When I was married in my twenties, I hated being regarded as ‚the little wife.‘ You don’t know what it was like then! I’d never even written a cheque. I had to ask my husband for money for groceries.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

I’m hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

I don’t think I could think of a single thing that’s more isolating than being famous.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.

In this world filled with challenges, we do need help from time to time. Religion, eternal truth, and our missionaries are vital parts of that help.

It’s not easy being young. It’s hard to know what to do.

What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

Last year we said, ‚Things can’t go on like this‘, and they didn’t, they got worse.

It sure is hell to be president.

Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily… thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn’t always follow what was going on.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.

Clinicians, academicians, and politicians are often put to a test of faith. In pursuit of their goals, will their religion show or will it be hidden? Are they tied back to God or to man?

I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail – I shall succeed.

Washington still refuses to provide evidence to support the claims in 1990 that a huge Iraqi military build-up on the Saudi border justified war.

Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, ‚Blah, blah, blah.‘ That’s when I get crazy.

The issues that cross a president’s desk are never easy. The easy questions don’t even get to the president.

I left the Middle West for Schenectady because the General Electric Company offered me a more congenial, better paying job than did anyone else.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

Players who are not from the U.K. have to get used to the winds. I have to adapt my style as a result as well. Often, you are forced to keep things simple.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don’t want to fight another guy whose sword is dull. If you’ve got two steel swords going back and forth hitting each other, what’s gonna happen? Both of them are going to get sharper. Everybody that’s in the industry has lost their edge.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

The faster you go, the shorter you are.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

A revolution is not a bed of roses.

Writing is challenging work because it’s so easy to get consumed with how it’s going, what’s going to happen to it, who’s going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.

It’s a frustrating game because the situations so drastically change at different times over the course of the week, the game, the season. It feels like brain surgery at times.

Good luck has its storms.

There are a lot of inaccuracies out there when it comes to the SEAL training process. You will see guys carrying logs around on television. They think that the hardest part about being on a SEAL team is getting through that training. The fact of the matter is, if you have a good attitude, that training is fun. I had a blast.

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘

I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.