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?‘

Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.

No one ever doubts that I mean what I say. The problem is I sometimes say all that I mean.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

My momma didn’t clean up floors so I could be a thug… so I could wear my pants down.

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.

If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

The first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it’s hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people – and to hate those other people.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

Acting is just a process of relaxation, actually. Knowing the text so well and trusting that the instinct and the subconscious mind, whatever you want to call it, is going to take over.

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

I guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

The secret of being a bore… is to tell everything.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life. And when I think about the kind of president that I want for my girls and all our children, that’s what I want.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren’t. I don’t know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

The spirit of America has nurtured responsibility and community unlike any other country.

These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I’m not downplaying that.

Saying nothing… sometimes says the most.

Lying is not only saying what isn’t true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.

Never trust any complicated cocktail that remains perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.

It is better to be deceived by one’s friends than to deceive them.

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

It’s hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I’m talking to them.

I think you have a moral responsibility when you’ve been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.

I don’t like people going behind my back.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don’t go away, they just echo around.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it’s just the thing that every man wants – to have a son and heir.

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

We need every person on Earth to acknowledge that climate change is real and encourage each other and our leaders to address the challenge.

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don’t do that, we really deserve the world we get.

FaceTime helps me a lot. I feel like I’m at home even though I’m not.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same room without quarreling, and there was intolerance upon both sides. To say ‚oral method‘ to a sign teacher was like waving a red flag in the face of a bull, and to say ‚sign language‘ to an oralist aroused the deepest resentment.