We may not live for hundreds of years, but the products of our creativity can leave a legacy long after we are gone.

An easy life does not make men, nor does it build nations. Challenges make men, and it is these men who build nations.

Creativity should be integral to everything that we do. Creativity should also be intrinsic to our personality, if excellence is what we seek.

The future does not wait for hesitant people. The more we achieve, the more we realise how much more we can achieve.

Good governance is about nothing more or less than creating happiness. It really is that simple.

Every nation can harness the energy of its citizens, either towards constructive work to generate optimism and hope, or towards tensions, unrest and war.

Helping those less fortunate than us is a blessed opportunity to show thanks for the gifts of life that we ourselves enjoy.

Change or you will be changed: leaders who neglect the good of their people will be forsaken. Leadership is a service, not a gateway to privilege.

Simplicity starts in the heart, away from negativity and pessimism.

A true leader does not derive power from his position, but from his ethics, from people’s love for him, and from his knowledge, education and excellence in his field of work.

To take risk and fail is not a failure. Real failure is to fear taking any risk

They were lucky. They'd been given history.

Every man is worth just so much as the things about which he busies himself.

Jealousy is a general human behavior, Until it's not changed.

And there have certainly been movies I wanted to be in and milestones I wanted to surpass that did not happen.

When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.

I meditate and pray before going onstage - it helps me focus.

The Lord's hand in in our lives; if we will but feel for it, in the darkness, we can grasp it and be lifted thereby.

Fans always tell me I'm beautiful, but no one will ever be as beautiful as them

You shy, Francesca?” Javier asks me later on. I shake my head. “Not really.” I’m just sad, I want to say. And I’m lonely.

In the deepest sense, the being in a state of sin is the sin, the particular sins are not the continuation of sin, they are expressions of its continuation.