When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

My sisters are stronger and my brother’s bigger than me.

I can’t say this enough – the food that you put into your bodies can actually help you get better grades. And it can also affect your performance in sports and other activities too. You see, when you give your body the best possible fuel, you have more energy, you’re stronger, you think more quickly.

The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength, through dense belts of brush and forest encumbered with fallen trees and boulder piles, across canons, roaring streams, and snow-fields, ever showing forth beauty and courage.

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

Now from a distance, I look back on what the Corps taught me: to think like men of action, and to act like men of thought!

A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike.

You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.

I loved being Secretary of State, that’s probably evident to everyone who watched me.

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

I urge everyone to be trendsetters for Azza Suleiman. Let’s make it one fashion which everyone will want to follow.

It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

I have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major decision.

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I’m the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

To lead people walk behind them.

If it weren’t for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

The path to the CEO’s office should not be through the CFO’s office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.

Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that’s what everybody needs to know.

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.

One thing I hope I’ll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

If you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are always watching what you do. And just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees who are watching their bosses.

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.

At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.

Power and speed be hands and feet.

You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It’s very real. It’s very strong.

Back in the day, what motivated me was overcoming myself. Now I believe in being a leader. I’ve done it all – I’m good. Now, it’s about setting an example for others to follow. I can’t just talk it – I have to live it.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

Freedom is a man’s natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Ethics and power are separate.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn’t matter if you’re a Democrat or a Republican, young or old.

Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can’t run a state.

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else – I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

I’m tough when I have to be, tender when I should be. When you find a really tough guy, he’s not a predator. He doesn’t have to prove himself. Guys who have to pretend to be tough, they ain’t. I’m tough.

I believe that many of my young guys lived because I didn’t waste their lives because I didn’t have the vision in my mind of how to destroy the enemy at least cost to our guys and to the innocents on the battlefields.

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is ‚to be prepared‘.

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don’t think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

I could never identify with that word, ‚weak.‘