‚Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

Actors search for rejection. If they don’t get it they reject themselves.

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

I’ve never fought with anyone. A lot of people talk to me, and they’re like, ‚Oh, you would have been fighting all the time when you were younger,‘ but I’m like, ‚I never fought with anyone because I always knew that if I hurt myself, I might lose important time in my cricket career,‘ so I never got into any fight, ever in my life.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

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

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

If I have the chance to say something, I will say it – but that doesn’t obligate me to always say something, or to shed light on every problem, as if I were a lawmaker.

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

My experience with power, you can maintain it, or you get it taken from you. You get you some newfound power and go crazy, and it get taken from you quick.

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.

Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there’s the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn’t do it the way somebody told you to do it.

I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Kitchens are hard environments and they form incredibly strong characters.

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

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

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‚This is a misfortune‘ but ‚To bear this worthily is good fortune.‘

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we’ve chosen to do with our life.

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

I’m not looking for sympathy at all.

I will not be triumphed over.

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

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

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

If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.

I’ve got a woman’s ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I’m a human being, too. And I’m on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

There’s people that tried to celebrate when I lost that got nothing to do with it. That’s not the sign of a champion.

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

Eight years ago, you may remember Hillary and I were rivals for the Democratic nomination. We battled for a year and a half. Let me tell you, it was tough, because Hillary was tough. I was worn out. She was doing everything I was doing, but just like Ginger Rogers, it was backwards in heels.

Courage is found in unlikely places.

What matters in the Sun-tzu universe are not positions of strength and power, but situations in which you have options, full of potential force.

No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.

When in doubt, don’t.

Even if you’re happy with the life you’ve chosen, you’re still curious about the other options.

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it’s time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

I have too many clothes, I have too many options.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.