A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

You’ll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.

We are what we believe we are.

I can handle pain.

Measure your wealth by what you’d have left if you lost all your money.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

Movies are fun, but they are no cure for cancer.

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

I’m not concerned with people seeing me in a certain way. Some people see me as a kid, some people see me as an adult. But I’m seriously not going to complain how anybody sees me, as long as they see me.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

It’s very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

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.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

To be honest with you, when I got into this I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

There’s people that tried to celebrate when I lost that got nothing to do with it. That’s not the sign of a champion.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

I never get too high on my stardom or what I can do.

Over the years, I’ve learned that a confident person doesn’t concentrate or focus on their weaknesses – they maximize their strengths.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Be the hunter, not the hunted.

I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it’d take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn’t want to retreat.

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

The foolish man conceives the idea of ‚self.‘ The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of ‚self;‘ thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

Age doesn’t bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It’s the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.

I don’t really care how the Patriots are perceived, truthfully. I really don’t. I really don’t. Look, if you’re a fan of our team, you root for us, you believe in our team, and you believe in what we’re trying to accomplish. If you’re not a fan of us, you have a different opinion.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

I don’t see that my majority opinions are going to be undone.

When I was four, my mother insisted I get out of the car and find my own way home. Although I got lost, I did find my way home. It taught me the value of independence at an early age.

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

When I see a story, I ask: is this something I’d like to be in? Is this something I’d like to see? And if I’d like to see it, would I like to tell it?

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

If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we’re going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it’s our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it’s because we’re focused on ourselves!

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

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

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.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

My own view is that every company requires a long-term view.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibilities. Everybody struggles in different ways.

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.