Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

And I'm not as young as I once was. At my age, I don't have time to be bored.

What I can do for my country, I am willing to do.

Your attitude is contagious.

Think of it this way: If you got a flat tire, what would you do? Change the tire? Or get out of the car and slash the other three tires? No! Get back on the road. Don't dwell on it; don't beat yourself up. That gets you nowhere.

One of my beliefs about leadership is it's not how many followers you have, but how many people you have with different opinions that you can bring together and try to be a good listener.

I am always in love with Milan. The relationship with the team, with the club, and with these fans is beautiful. It's weird for a Brazilian to have a relationship like that with an Italian club.

I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.

Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.

Infrastructure is the backbone of economic growth. It improves access to basic services such as clean water and electricity, creates jobs and boosts business.

I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.

The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people.

I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Success is not a place at which one arrives but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

The National Intelligence Director needs the authority to do the job we are asking him to do. That means power over the intelligence budget. And to be effective, to be allowed to do his or her job, they must have authority over the budget.

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

When I look at China's environmental problems, the real barrier is not lack of technology or money. It's lack of motivation.

It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.

Horror movies are the best date movies. There's no wondering, 'When do I put my arm around her?'