What’s right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity – intellect and resources – to do some thing about them.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul.

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J’aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there’s purpose and worth to each and every life.

It’s important that we invest in America – literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can’t let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

I wasn’t very good in academics, but I could have been if I could have studied well. I was a smart kid.

Never be ashamed! There’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth bothering with.

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn’t educate America if they started at 6:30.

We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there’s enough room for all of us to succeed.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

America’s experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It’s about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

The future is called ‚perhaps‘, which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

I’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.

Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you’re actually helping to make America stronger.

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

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.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

I try to see the good in everybody, and I don’t care who people are as long as they’re themselves, whatever that is.

If life gives you limes, make margaritas.

True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America – land of the free, home of the brave.

Fun is good.

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,‘ he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. ‚Shake it off. Stop complainin‘. Stop grumblin‘. Stop cryin‘. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

Fun is one of the most important – and underrated – ingredients in any successful venture. If you’re not having fun, then it’s probably time to call it quits and try something else.

What we think, we become.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

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

As we know, while our species remains alive, everybody has the sacred duty to be optimistic. Ethically, any other behaviour wouldn’t be admissible.

I have no further use for America. I wouldn’t go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

In America, there’s a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world.

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.‘

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it’s all just noise that lets me know that I’m relevant.

There’s not a liberal America and a conservative America – there’s the United States of America.

I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was ‚Einstein.‘

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.