We struck out on our own in suburbia with parents who actually helped us get where we needed to go.
I'm really the candidate who has really lived his whole life in suburbia.
Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?
The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.
Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
Botswana had three successive good presidents who served their legal terms, who did well for their countries - three, not one.
Who my successor is will be up to the board, not me.
Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.
A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
I fought a boxer who everybody said I couldn't beat - Sugar Ray Leonard. They said he was faster than me. That he was the best of the best. And I beat him.
I'm suggesting that the prohibition on people who survive on money coming from government, that includes pensioners and public servants, standing for Parliament - it's absurd.
Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
In classrooms full of students who range from brilliant to sullen disaffection, it's games - and often games alone - that I've seen engage every single person in the room. For some, the right kind of play can spell the difference between becoming part of something, and the lifelong feeling that they're not meant to take part.
We are a sum total of what we have learned from all who have taught us, both great and small.
I was shocked to find that there were actually climate scientists who wouldn't share the raw data, but would only share their conclusions in summary graphs that were used to prove their various theories about planet warming. In fact I began to smell something really bad, and the worse that smell got, the deeper I looked.
No great inner event befalls those who summon it not.
It's not reasonable for companies that have chief executives and board members who are paid very considerable sums to subsidise low pay through in-work benefits.
Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
The civil war across the Middle East between the Shia and the Sunni empowers groups like ISIS and al Qaeda who claim to be the defenders of Sunni rights against Shia attack.
You're telling me Beyonce is a revolutionary? Thirty years ago, you had those guys who raised their fists at the Olympic games, and they paid 30 years of their lives because of that gesture. And you're telling me a superstar who put one fist in the air is a revolutionary? But that's the superficiality of this time.
