One must know that war is common, justice is strife, and everything happens according to strife and necessity.

The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Big results require big ambitions.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Dogs bark at what they don't understand.

Change alone is unchanging.

Those who are awake all live in the same world. Those who are asleep live in their own worlds.

What is divine escapes men's notice because of their incredulity.

Those who approach life like a child playing a game, moving and pushing pieces, possess the power of kings.

Let it be that your life becomes the brightest light that enlightens the whole world.

Happiness will depend on what each of us does with what each has, what we learn from what we do, and what we do thereafter.

[James Mattis] also has real passion for the care of the men and women in the U.S. military and their families. So, you know, I think he would be an outstanding candidate.

I always used to say when I was on television that I prefer to be on stage and when on stage I prefer to do television. Typical human condition.

My surroundings have always been conducive to achieving what you want and believing in self 100 per cent; not being afraid to stand up and voice your opinion.

Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.

There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit.

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

If prayer is you talking to God, then intuition is God talking to you.

Tolerance is the assumption of superiority