With all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.

I can’t deny that label-support gave me a leg up – though not every successful artist needs it.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

Making your dad happy is – especially for an Italian Catholic girl, I’ll tell you – it feels really good.

I was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results.

My mother would kill me if I posed nude! My mother raised me with certain standards.

I imagine I will be less involved in film and be focused more on family and foreign affairs.

I remember talking with Arcade Fire after their first record, when they were getting all kinds of offers from major labels, and I don’t think I gave them any advice. They survived that whole onslaught pretty well anyway without me.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving – as if it were an individual person – its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.

In cricket, my superhero is Sachin Tendulkar. He has always been my hero and will continue to remain so. Apart from him and outside cricket, my mother has remained my inspiration. Whatever difficult time I had faced, she was always there for me. She has given me all the strength. She maintained her composure and supported me in tough times.

When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a ‚have-not,‘ but I knew that I wasn’t.

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

‚They‘ are the people that don’t believe in you, that say that you won’t succeed. We stay away from ‚They.‘

I’ve told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn’t kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

I can honestly say, after talking about my mom passing away, I got the biggest weight off of my chest. Comedy is my therapy. That’s how I deal with my problems, my personal battles. I talk about it. I give it to my fans. When they laugh at it, it’s a release, for lack of a better word.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

I wouldn’t say that anyone in fashion is on my side. I don’t think there’s anyone on my side.

I’m very lucky. The public happens to like me. Maybe they like me because I use every opportunity to talk about injustice.

When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over, I certainly don’t take it home. My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn’t know the difference between a third strike and a foul ball. We don’t talk about baseball at home.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

My mom is very religious – Catholic – and from a young age they brought me to the church.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

Working with our military community has been the biggest honor of my life.

When I was writing the Destiny’s Child songs, it was a big thing to be that young and taking control. And the label at the time didn’t know that we were going to be that successful, so they gave us all control. And I got used to it.

Everybody that’s successful lays a blueprint out.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

I don’t care how busy I am – I will always make time for what’s most important to me.

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

Over the years I’ve seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can’t it happen to me? I’m not worried I’m young – it’s an incentive to do the best I can.

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

It is not so much our friends‘ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

I’m lucky that, despite all the bad press I’ve had over the years, the public still seems to like me.

I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I’ve got a lot of that in me as well.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

Few people realize that luck is created.

So long as I’m Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you’ve served us – because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.

The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.