My heart goes out to the brave citizens of Syria who each day risk and even sacrifice their lives to achieve freedom from a murderous regime. We in Israel welcome the historic struggle to forge democratic peace-loving governments in our region.
I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to no matter what the sacrifice.
Today hundreds of millions dwell in freedom from the Baltic to the Adriatic from the Western Approaches to the Aegean. And while we must never take this for granted the first purpose of the European Union - to secure peace - has been achieved and we should pay tribute to all those in the EU alongside Nato who made that happen.
In South Africa we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world who through the use of non-violent means such as boycotts and divestment encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.
So long as you do not achieve social liberty whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.
The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.
When it becomes hard for me not to eat bad food I try to think about what I have to do and what is ahead of me and what I want to achieve.
No one's ever achieved financial fitness with a January resolution that's abandoned by February.
If a man achieves victory over this body who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.
If you fear making anyone mad then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
They can gas me but I am famous. I have achieved in one day what it took Robert Kennedy all his life to do.
You don't have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person doing extraordinary things. I'd like more people to know that it's there. Women's achievements still aren't recognised enough in many areas.
Famous pivot stories are often failures but you don't need to fail before you pivot. All a pivot is is a change is strategy without a change in vision. Whenever entrepreneurs see a new way to achieve their vision - a way to be more successful - they have to remain nimble enough to take it.
As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield I fantasized about how it would be great to be famous so I wouldn't actually have to talk to people and feel awkward. And of course as we all know from fairy stories when you achieve that ambition you find out you don't want it.
Hitler was so modern in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.
I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing.