Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

Lord bless me with the ability to achieve all that I can and the wisdom to realize it doesn't all have to be by tomorrow!

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.

You must accept responsibility for your actions but not the credit for your achievements.

If you call failures experiments you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.

If you're trying to achieve there will be roadblocks. I've had them everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it go through it or work around it.

Look at what President Kennedy managed to achieve during the Cuban missile crisis. If Bush had been president in 1962 do you think he would have avoided a nuclear war?

What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but never achieved - a system that was created for the days after the Second World War. That prize is now I think achievable.

We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that the program had not failed and then the warriors could have achieved their goals.