While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed the worst, and with continued unity of effort, we shall rapidly recover. There is one certainty of the future of a people of the resources, intelligence and character of the people of the United States – that is, prosperity.

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.

I’m not looking for sympathy at all.

I’m an idealist without illusions.

Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.

I don’t think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.

I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of – of American capitalism.

I will meet my countrymen. I understand only one language: that they are my countrymen, they are my brothers. You may see with whatever colour you want; Modi will not go into that colour.

How fortunate I was to be alive and a lawyer when, for the first time in United States history, it became possible to urge, successfully, before legislatures and courts, the equal-citizenship stature of women and men as a fundamental constitutional principle.

In God’s family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

With tech companies, whoever’s the leader is always questioned, you know. They say, ‚Is this the end of them?‘ And – there’s more – more times people think that’s the case than it really is the case.

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you’re supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.

I was hit by a car once on my bike, but I still rode home.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

If it’s stress of things that we cannot control, what you have to do is you mitigate that stress as much as possible. You’ve planned, you’ve trained, you’ve done everything you can in your power to mitigate the stress that’s facing you. And then after that, there’s nothing you can do. So, you have to let that one go.

Pakistan is not a unified country.

Someone said to me, ‚If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?‘ My answer was then and still is, ‚If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.‘

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke. The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.

The many questions about the bombing of Yugoslavia by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation – meaning primarily the United States – come down to two fundamental issues: ‚What are the accepted and applicable ‚rules of world order,‘ and how do these apply in the case of Kosovo?‘

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

Even if soccer is not number one in the United States, they do things very well here. There’s much our country can learn from the U.S.A., because we all know that soccer is not the main game in India. We can still do more things, like provide better facilities for the players so they can perform well.

When you’re in hell, you forget how great you really are because you’re suffering and you forget the great things you’ve done.

These times are so hard, and they’re getting even harder.

The best way out of a difficulty is through it.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than it takes to see the bad.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

My faith was tested like Job. That’s the message I try to tell other people: just because you believe in God, serve God, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, people gotta realize, it don’t mean things not gonna happen to you.

From my intimate discussions with President Obama, it is evident that India figures significantly in American geo-political, economic and strategic thinking. India is the largest democracy in the world.

The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.

In 1961, the United States began chemical warfare in Vietnam, South Vietnam, chemical warfare to destroy crops and livestock. That went on for seven years. The level of poison – they used the most extreme carcinogen known: dioxin. And this went on for years.

I always entertain great hopes.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history.

So, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken place. Then the attacks of September the 11th, and then of course the great financial meltdown in the -the fundamental question facing any presidency is how do you deal with the hand you’re dealt?

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

Egypt is the second-largest recipient over a long period of U.S. military and economic aid. Israel is first.

It’s really fun to put yourself into a character – into shoes you wouldn’t normally be in.

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.