There is something about building up a comradeship – that I still believe is the greatest of all feats – and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation.

The day I think I’m not enjoying the game and contributing the way I would like to, I’ll hang up my boots.

Me only have one ambition, y’know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together – black, white, Chinese, everyone – that’s all.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees.

Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.

In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

God puts people in our lives on purpose so we can help them succeed and help them become all He created them to be. Most people will not reach their full potential without somebody else believing in them.

The most genius thing about the way I create is to create with other geniuses.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

If I could, I would not do anything else. I’d just be in the studio for my whole life. I would never go to parties, events, and red carpets. I would rather just be in the studio for the whole time. I don’t even care. Nobody has to know what I look like. I just want to make music.

Certainly there’s a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

When the players go home, I can’t tell them what to do, so you need to create an atmosphere of trust. I don’t want to think, ‚What are they doing now? Do I need to call them?‘

I am prepared to resort to anything, to submit to anything, for the sake of the commonwealth.

Friends applaud, the comedy is over.

My mami and papi love my music. They’re always listening to the radio waiting for one of my songs to come on. And when it does, they turn up the volume – and turn it back down when it’s over.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.

Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.

I’ve never dropped anyone I believed in.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.

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.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

I’ve always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, ‚Hi,‘ that the people ought to get their money’s worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.

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

People don’t realise how difficult it is to work with people day in and day out that know absolutely nothing.

When you’re supposed to be close and friends in the film, the moment you’re talking as friends off the set, it makes it that much better when you’re filming.

While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed the worst, and with continued unity of effort, we shall rapidly recover. There is one certainty of the future of a people of the resources, intelligence and character of the people of the United States – that is, prosperity.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

All my adult life people have been helping me.

I will only hire someone to work directly for me if I would work for that person. It’s a pretty good test.

In hip-hop, there’s not a lot of love. There’s not a lot of love being spread. It’s always like ‚I’m stuntin‘ on you raps, or I’m better than you raps.‘ It’s not a lot of ‚Yo man, I idolize you raps.‘

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

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

I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of ‚escape of energy,‘ that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.

That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

Ours is a nation of laws: of citizens who live under them and for the citizens who enforce them. So, to a community in Ferguson that is rightly hurting and looking for answers, let me call once again for us to seek some understanding rather than simply holler at each other. Let’s seek to heal rather than to wound each other.

Writing means sharing. It’s part of the human condition to want to share things – thoughts, ideas, opinions.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

We’re going to have to work. We’re going to have to play well. Nothing will be given to us.

The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It’s ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.

Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.