Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.

This country is being managed to death, being public related to death.

If you’re too big to fit into fashion, then you just have to do your own fashion.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.

Never was it given to mortal man – To lie so boldly as we women can.

We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn’t controversial, that means he never stood for anything.

Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the people who are on the front line.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

I do believe in self-help.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

Every President wants to do right.

When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn’t set out to build a business empire… For me, building a business is all about doing something to be proud of, bringing talented people together and creating something that’s going to make a real difference to other people’s lives.

It’d be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren’t kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I’m not a baby sitter.

He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people – and to hate those other people.

I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

As commanders and staff officers, we are coaches and sentries for our units: how can we coach anything if we don’t know a hell of a lot more than just the TTPs?

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don’t know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

I have no delusions about my likability in every scenario. I know that in order to get things done the way you want them, oftentimes your position will be unpopular.

The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

We talk about this concept of openness and transparency as the high-level ideal that we’re moving towards at Facebook. The way that we get there is by empowering people to share and connect. The combination of those two things leads the world to become more open.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

Don’t be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.

Encouragement to others is something everyone can give. Somebody needs what you have to give. It may not be your money; it may be your time. It may be your listening ear. It may be your arms to encourage. It may be your smile to uplift. Who knows?

I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might have is that it will be led by women and older women.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

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

I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

I go to cancer wards, and I tell them guys, ‚I’ve beaten it. You can, too.‘

I have never left another senator out to dry. Never.

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

I am fearless.

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

He who is brave is free.

I knew through the surgeries that he was on my side and that this wasn’t something where I was gonna feel less of a woman, because my husband wasn’t gonna let that happen.

I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.