It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

For something to collapse, not all systems have to shut down. In most cases, just one system is enough. For example, the human body is a system of systems. If just one system, such as the cardiovascular system, shuts down, death follows.

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death… these are things that unite us all.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

We’re all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

I’m on record that it didn’t really traumatize me to do away with some people.

You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise.

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

I think it’s very important to cry in the shower and not in front of them. They need to know that everything’s going to be all right, even when you’re not sure it is.

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart’s the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

Bravery never goes out of fashion.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘

Obviously, there’s a part of me that takes the world of violence and death very seriously. However, when it comes to protection, or when it comes to just the skill of shooting… I’ve gone to the range with sniper rifles and things like that.

My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

I love the natural world – it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

If it’s stress of things that we cannot control, what you have to do is you mitigate that stress as much as possible. You’ve planned, you’ve trained, you’ve done everything you can in your power to mitigate the stress that’s facing you. And then after that, there’s nothing you can do. So, you have to let that one go.

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.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

You can’t stop everything from happening. But we’ve gotten to a point where we’re certainly trying. If a car doesn’t have four hundred air bags in it, then it’s no good.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

Losing is tough.

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

I think the best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I’ve got Alzheimer’s.

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

People want you to fail.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver five minutes longer.

I nearly failed when Virgin was in its infancy; I nearly failed in the early 1980s, and, of course, I have nearly died more than once trying to achieve a world record for boating or ballooning. But through a combination of luck and planning, both Virgin and I are still here.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

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.

What’s coming will come and we’ll just have to meet it when it does.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.