My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

To reach a port, we must sail – sail, not tie at anchor – sail, not drift.

When hiring somebody, I never ask to see a curriculum vitae. I feel that since I didn’t have one myself, it would be a bit presumptuous to ask to see anyone else’s.

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.

My whole life is a theater piece.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.

If you had your life to live over again, do it overseas.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

Mars is the only place in the solar system where it’s possible for life to become multi-planetarian.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

I’m more of a realist when it comes to life, and I’d much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

When you tell a recruiter that you’re almost 300 pounds and you want to be a SEAL, it doesn’t go too well. I got hung up on a lot.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

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.

I had a C-section, and I found it fascinating. I didn’t find it a sacrifice, and I didn’t find it a painful experience. I found it a fascinating miracle of what a body can do.

Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

There’s an ecstatic side to writing. It’s like jazz. It just has a life.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

It’s been said that astronomy is a humbling and, I might add, a character-building experience.

I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that’s by going step by step.

I don’t believe in nepotism. I don’t much like the idea of parents who interfere.

Faith never makes a confession.

Faith… must be enforced by reason… when faith becomes blind it dies.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.

The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

I happen to believe there is evil in the world.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

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.

I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go – that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

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

I believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

There’s something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.