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Two heads are better than one.

Practice makes perfect.

The power of one person — Washington, Lincoln, King, Mandela and even a young girl from Pakistan, Malala — one person can change the world by giving people hope.

If you want to change the world, measure a person by the size of their heart, not the size of their flippers.

SEAL training was a great equalizer. Nothing mattered but your will to succeed. Not your color, not your ethnic background, not your education and not your social status.

Friendships are frequently taken up on some sudden sympathy, and we see only as much as we please of one another's characters afterwards.

Intimate friends are not fair witnesses to character, any more than professed enemies.

There are those who have gone, for want of this self-knowledge, strangely out of their way, and others who have never found it.

Anyone who has taken the oath I have just taken must feel a heavy weight of responsibility.

A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.

Surely it is hardly fitting that the ruler should be baser than the ruled.

Only it seems to me a grievous error in a ruler to quarrel with all his subjects at once.

With such aids and an honest purpose to do whatever is right, I hope to execute diligently, impartially, and for the best interests of the country the manifold duties devolved upon me.