You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

I worked my face off.

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

When I signed up for BFC, then-coach Ashley Westwood wanted me to play on the left as an attacking midfielder. I was not sure initially but I believed in his vision. For the first six-seven games, I didn’t really know what I was doing. I was like a headless chicken. But he kept backing me.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.

Prime Minister Netanyahu has, as Minister Livni knows, has been my friend for over 30 years. We drive each other crazy. But he has truly been a personal friend for well over 30 years. He acknowledged this.

I’ve known Ben Stiller for a minute. One of my first movies was ‚Along Came Polly.‘

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

If you can be mentally stimulated by the workout and find out how to get through it, it’s more fun.

We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I’m going to be alive, I want to be challenged – to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn’t an easy way, but it’s a rewarding way.

Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

It’s not easy being young. It’s hard to know what to do.

Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

I think a role model is a mentor – someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

In college, a loss is pretty devastating. That feeling kind of goes away in an 82-game season. You hate to lose, but you also have a lot more games to make up for it.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: ‚Does your teacher use class time well?‘ and, ‚When you’re confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?‘

I’m never gonna step away from stand-up. I can’t. That’s what got me where I am, and that’s also my muse. That’s how I stay level-headed. That’s what keeps me going.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Kids will remind you that, even though you’ve gone down a road 100 times, it’s brand new for them – and that’s healthy.

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

There’s definitely going to be things that I’m not very good at, things I can improve.

After the first day of practice, there’s not one guy who’s playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it just hurts.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

I’m not a man deeply interested in technology. It eludes me.

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited ‚first chapters‘. I have indeed written many.

If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.

It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.

There is no education like adversity.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.