To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

One thing I just want to say to the military families – while you might not wear a uniform, I know – we all know, the nation knows – that you serve and sacrifice right alongside of your loved ones. And we are so grateful and proud of all of you for your service to this nation.

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

I’m the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.

In 1993, Israel and North Korea were moving towards an agreement in which North Korea would stop sending any missiles or military technology to the Middle East and Israel would recognize that country. President Clinton intervened and blocked it.

What is easy is seldom excellent.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

Obviously this song is an achievement for me in my career, but what makes me really feel good is to make Latinos feel proud. To provoke that pride that a pop figure and someone so big in music globally like Drake would sing with me completely in Spanish and create this hit ‚MIA.‘ That’s the best part of it.

At 57, to have a No. 1 album, I wasn’t expecting it.

I’ve been blessed to be somebody that’s been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it’s all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I’m saying, and it feels good ‚cause it’s good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible.

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one’s goal and not in reaching it.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.

I look at where I’m at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.

I think that once you’ve had a few No. 1s in your career that you’ve kind of proven yourself, and I don’t feel the need to prove anything anymore.

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

It’s not essential for me to have a big debut week; it’s not essential for me to have big radio records.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

It’s cool to be recognised by your peers.

A faithful woman can become a devoted daughter of God – more concerned with being righteous than with being selfish, more anxious to exercise compassion than to exercise dominion, more committed to integrity than to notoriety. And she knows of her own infinite worth.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

If a person is successful, we imagine they are probably also ethical, conscientious and deserving of their good fortune. This obscures the fact that many people who get ahead have done so by doing less than moral actions, which they cleverly disguise from view.

I know I’m more on television, and I’m more recognisable than maybe even the players because they run and train, but I just stand there, and my face does all these funny things that everyone can see all the time.

Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn’t give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn’t seem right.

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war – for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I’d say we deserve ours more.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

Look folks, we know who built this country and we know who is going to rebuild it. It’s you. Instead of vilifying you, we should be thanking you. We owe you.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Among physicists, I’m respected I hope.

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

Well begun is half done.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

Of course awards matter.

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

A person’s a person, no matter how small.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

We are going to transform Britain’s rail system from the worst in the world to the best. If you can do a few things like that, when the body gives out, you can say you’ve lived a good life.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

I’m sure everyone knows now that only a few have performed in Madison Square Garden. That list is so small. Now I’m on that list. I’m a part of a very small group, which is unbelievable. You relish in that moment for a second.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

There was my name up in lights. I said, ‚God, somebody’s made a mistake.‘ But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, ‚Remember, you’re not a star.‘ Yet there it was up in lights.

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

My name can’t be that tough to pronounce!

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

Things don’t have to change the world to be important.