What are our priorities? First, the welfare, the survival of the people. Then, democratic norms and processes which from time to time we have to suspend.

If you want to reach your goals and dreams, you cannot do it without discipline

If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business.

Life is not just eating, drinking, television and cinema...The human mind must be creative, must be self-generating ; it cannot depend on just gadgets to amuse itself.

I knew that my niece was working nearby with some bank, so my wife rang up the mother and the mother called back to say that shes just called up to say she was alright.

I’m very determined. If I decide that something is worth doing, then I’ll put my heart and soul to it. The whole ground can be against me, but if I know it is right, I’ll do it.

If there was one formula for our success,it was that we were constantly studying how to make things work,or how to make them work better.

A leader without the vision, to strive to improve things, is no good. Then you will just stay put, you won't progress.

Having an education is one thing, being educated is another.

I'm not saying that everything I did was right, but everything I did was for an honourable purpose.

Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people don’t understand this.

When you imagine yourself as a failure or as having insurmountable problems in your relationships or any part of your life, you think failure, act failure, and produce failure.

I resent when I go out to dinner and they try to sell me the healthy food for the same price as the good food.

I'd love to have a Christmas classic under my belt. It's hard to write a Christmas song.

[Carnival Ride] is part of a line from my favorite song on the album, "Wheel of the World." It sums up everything that's happened to me. It's nuts to think of where I was a couple of years ago.

And God, God who believes in us all. And who's given me this moment, in this lifetime, that I will hopefully carry to the end of my lifetime into the next lifetime.

Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.

No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.

You don't make a friend," Jacob said with a scowl. "It's not like they come with directions like you'd find on a box of macaroni and cheese.

History is the land-mark by which we are directed into the true course of life.

The world's not going to wait for you. If you have an idea, put some effort behind it and get it out there.