Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure.

Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.

Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth.

Play the hand you're dealt.

The better the school library, the higher the reading scores.

By helping the poor, we must be able to remove their poverty. By extending help to one here and one there in the form of providing food will not remove poverty.

The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.

I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.

Maybe we're just stupid and don't realize you can't make music that sounds like a chase scene from a 'Scooby Doo' cartoon and have people take you seriously.

He who rules by moral force is like the pole star, which remains in place while all the lesser stars do homage to it.

I want you to be forever strong on the field, so that you will be forever strong off the field.

The purpose of our practice is just to be yourself.

I was disappointed to leave Spurs, but quite pleased that I did.

And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.