As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there’s no use.

I can’t make a song for a particular person or demographic. If I love it, I’m gonna do it. I have to perform it for the rest of my life. A song is like a tattoo – you can never get away from it.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won’t be a world – at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.

Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don’t really give a toss whether they’re playing or not because they’re getting paid anyway.

The Vietnamese see their history as an unending series of struggles of resistance to aggression, by the Chinese, the Mongols, the Japanese, the French, and now the Americans.

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

Marriage is the death of hope.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.

Wherever the enemy wants to fight, we will follow him to the ends of the Earth. We’ll adapt, we’ll train, we’ll advise, we’ll mentor, and we’ll fight, and we’ll fight well.

I never felt settled or calm. You can’t really commit to life when you feel that.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

When I’m in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself ‚why?‘

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

I am a grafter.

The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

Once you have six children, you’re committed.

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

The day I think I’m not enjoying the game and contributing the way I would like to, I’ll hang up my boots.

Commitment is an act, not a word.

The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that’s something that we should think about.

Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.

I haven’t been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

Mad or glad, Mr. Reagan is head over heels in love with Mrs. Reagan and can’t even imagine a world without her – He loves her.

When I get on a roll with something, it’s really hard for me to put it down unfinished.

Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.

So long as I’m Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you’ve served us – because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

Part of me feels you can’t say you were truly in love if it didn’t last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that’s when I’ll know it’s real – because it lasted.

I was always trying – I never wanted to let my fans down; I always wanted them to see me in my art form.

All religions must be tolerated… for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it.

When you’re one of the leaders of the team, there are no days off.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.

Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear.

Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

There is no such thing as a lovers‘ oath.

We’re a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we’re all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that’s a marvelous thing.

Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.

When people say ‚marriage‘ to me… It’s always a means to an end. Everyone’s so in a rush to define the relationship.

I never promise anything. I don’t promise anything to my mum. I don’t promise anything to the supporters.

There’s a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.

It’s one of the few regrets of my presidency – that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better. There’s no doubt a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide, and I guarantee I’ll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office.

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

There’s nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It’s a thing no married man knows anything about.

Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night’s date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn’t think of looking at another woman.

Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.

I love that we can trust Barack to do what he says he’s going to do, even when it’s hard – especially when it’s hard.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 – Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.

Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you’re signed up for a season, see it through. You don’t have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

The thing most people don’t pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It’s 24/7.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

As president, I’m committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here.