While some doubted that connecting the world was actually important, we were building. While others doubted that this would be sustainable, you were forming lasting connections. We just cared more about connecting the world than anyone else. And we still do today.

Over the course of my career in law enforcement, I have witnessed over and over again the selflessness and sacrifice of law enforcement who lay their lives on the line every day to protect people who they will never meet and people who will never know their names.

People think because I’ve got some success, I’ve made it, but in my eyes it’s like, ‚How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?‘ Not that I’m trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.

To be a bodyguard is to be a kamikaze pilot. Dedicated.

My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

At the end of 2003, my game was complete. Shooting, defense, using the dribble, transition, midrange stuff was all there. Then it was about fine-tuning and trying to improve in each area.

I remember when I was younger, and in school, our teachers showed us films of plastic in the ocean, starving polar bears and so on. I cried through all the movies. My classmates were concerned when they watched the film, but when it stopped, they started thinking about other things. I couldn’t do that. Those pictures were stuck in my head.

I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.

I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own religion.

I’ve played with IVs before, during and after games. I’ve played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don’t miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn’t that serious in the first place.

Today we say that the law of relativity is supposed to be true at all energies, but someday somebody may come along and say how stupid we were.

To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.

I have worked hard since my childhood and worked as a labourer. I put my mind and heart into it.

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

We need to keep making our streets safer and our criminal justice system fairer – our homeland more secure, our world more peaceful and sustainable for the next generation.

I don’t let even a day go by wherein I don’t give at 100 per cent.

I’ve had mixtapes that have been better than albums I’ve heard from other artists. I take my time; I put my heart into it.

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you’re going to be a second-rate artist.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I’m still fanatical, but now I’m a little less fanatical.

The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far – the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We’re obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.

When you stand for something, you’ve got to stand for it all the way, not half way.

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.

If you’ve spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

It takes up enough of my time and interest just working on comedy. I just enjoy it and love doing it.

I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.

The thing most people don’t pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It’s 24/7.

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.

There are thousands of ways to take action. For example, plant trees, pick up litter, join an organisation or movement that makes a difference and especially try to influence adults and put pressure on people in power.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That’s what’s important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

The only definition by which America’s best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

Each doctor makes a much, much more important job than I do, but at the end, nobody talks about him. We all know about it, but we don’t really think about it.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

In just a few hundred years, we will have to cover the entire surface of the Earth in solar cells if we want to continue to grow our energy usage.

At Virgin, we have always backed the power of the entrepreneur and inventor to find solutions to tricky problems. Why should climate change and the battle against carbon be any different?

Racing, competing, it’s in my blood. It’s part of me, it’s part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.

I’ve sat in sushi bars, really fine ones, and I know how hard this guy worked, how proud he is. I know you don’t need sauce. I know he doesn’t even want you to pour sauce. And I’ve seen customers come in and do that, and I’ve seen him, as stoic as he tries to remain, I’ve seen him die a little inside.

A jug fills drop by drop.

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

The Apollo program certainly had no real commercial value. It was done for very different reasons and, I think, very good reasons for the time. It’s an extraordinary achievement of mankind, but it wasn’t sustainable.

It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

In my case Pilgrim’s Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.