It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

‚American Graffiti‘ was unpleasant because of the fact that there was no money, no time, and I was compromising myself to death.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It’s hard to keep awake with nothing to do.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Mickey Rourke’s character in ‚The Wrestler‘ – that was my dad, that was my uncles, that was so many members of my family. It was the only thing they knew. And then they would end up wrestling for a hundred bucks, go to autograph signings for two hundred bucks.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

My life is a struggle.

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don’t find out til too late that he’s been playing with two queens all along.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

My folks ain’t graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family – and I come from a big family.

No other country in the world does what we do. On every issue, the world turns to us, not simply because of the size of our economy or our military might – but because of the ideals we stand for, and the burdens we bear to advance them.

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it – not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

Why am I here? I’m not lucky. That’s God.

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

The truth is that the vast majority of Americans are good, fair, and just, and they want their country to reflect those ideals.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.

There’s always a bittersweet kind of thing, but I feel like everything had to work out the way it is. Everything that had to happen, happened.

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

It’s a curse. I ask God to take this away from me all the time. I do not like being an artist.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

Jesters do often prove prophets.

Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren’t always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice.

When it all got taken away, I was becoming a young man. So I had to sacrifice to leave my family… Sleeping in my car, getting an apartment for a month and getting evicted the next month. Staying in the $25, $50 hotels.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

The Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There’s five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions. Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in the middle of disaster.

I’ll never make it, it will never happen, because they’re never going to hear me ‚cause they’re screaming all the time.

You’re imperfect, and you’re wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

There’ll always be serendipity involved in discovery.

Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

I did suffer a lot since karting, with my size and everything, not really having a clue what to do when I started karting. So I suffered in every category: F4, F3, F2. Not so much F2 but I’ve had to kind of play catch-up quite a bit and in some ways, F1 was a bit nicer with power steering.

Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That’s definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

I’ve written some great things. That’s a gift, but there’s consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

What prevails in every corner of this globalized world is the real struggle of our species for its own survival.

I wrote ‚Channel Orange‘ in two weeks. The end product wasn’t always that gritty, real-life depiction of the real struggle that happened.

Some of the most moving experiences I’ve had are just in black churches in the South, during the Civil Rights Movement, where people were getting beaten, killed, really struggling for the most elementary rights.

Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.

Getting in and out of the car with the halo takes a bit of experience. I struggled initially, but after a few trial runs I was fine.