Should you ever be sent to war, and you don’t agree with its goals, desert.

Achievements have greater appeal as failures, therefore they are systematically overrated. The media usually reportes only about stars, the unsuccessful are not mentioned. Therfore we end up a distorted perception of the real chances. It is useful to study the unsuccessful. #SurvivorshipBias

Behind each successful author hide 100 unsuccessful, behind each unsuccessful there are 100 that did not find a publisher, behind each of them there 100 who have not yet completed their manuscript .... But in the news only the stars get the whole attention.

There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don’t know, and those who don’t know they don’t know

do you have at least one enemy? Good. Invite him or her over for coffee and ask for an honest opinion about your strengths and weaknesses. You will be forever grateful you did.

If 50 million people say something foolish, it is still foolish.

If you spend fifteen minutes in a shopping mall, you will pass more people than our ancestors saw during their entire lifetimes.

The more people do something, the more likely we are willing to follow. But this doesn´t make it automatically right, funny, good... Applause at the concert, laughing at shows, walk over a red traffic light

Leaders must wake people out of inertia. They must get people excited about something they've never seen before, something that does not yet exist.

Then his heart now broken into a thousand pieces slowly began to turn to ice.

I was in the Navy as an enlisted man, started my first business when I was 21.

I have a little pocket Bible that I have with me all the time in my briefcase, and so usually in the mornings, sometimes on the campaign bus or plane, I always try to catch some time to do that regularly.

I was so unhealthy. I used to go to 'Cold Stone Creamery,' get a tub of Butterfinger ice cream, and eat it all before bedtime. And my fingers were permanently stained orange from Cheetos.

There is no life without sport and no sport without competition.

Is there such a thing as a cheerful pessimist? That’s what I am.

In film roles, I play a lot of heavies and a lot of bad guys, so I tend to be the jokester and the good-time Charlie on the set.

Stardom is a crazy thought. If that's what my path is, then that's where I'm excited to be headed towards.

Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.

I don't know if I believe in love at first sight, but of course I believe in two people having chemistry right away. A girl should be really easy to talk to. When I lose track of time because we've been talking, I think that's really fun.

Everyone who's in America spends the first few years not experiencing it. The person is frightened by the newness of the place and doesn't see things. Her emotional universe becomes the entire universe. And then when she thinks of home, her distance in space can seem like a distance in time.

I'd rather be on a label that understands us and allows us to be a bit odd.

If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.

My parents were both very intellectually honest, straightforward, and for them, faith meant that you were fully engaged.

'The Graduate' should have won best picture over 'In the Heat of the Night.'

To my niece, you are a joy to my heart and a delight to my eyes. You are a precious gift to our entire family and a wonderful addition to our lives.

Nothing but a miracle of sovereign mercy could have arrested and saved me from eternal perdition. How I could have so long resisted the entreaties, the prayers, and the tears of my dear parents, and the influences of the Holy Spirit, is, to me, a wonder entirely incomprehensible.

Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars instead of carrying them on at the expense of other generations.

The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

By adopting the 'free trade,' or British, system, we place ourselves side by side with the men who have ruined Ireland and India, and are now poisoning and enslaving the Chinese people.

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.

I don't think that we’re meant to understand it all the time. I think that sometimes we just have to have faith.