All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

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.

In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.

It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It’s not true that I’m happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

All my life, I’ve been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I’ve come is a bogey.

No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

You have to stay faithful to what you’re working on.

I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

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.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

I think music is something that can, and should, be used to get you into different things because eventually what goes up must come down – we’re not going to be the number one group in the world forever – so you have to have something else to fall back on.

No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

I never woke up and thought, ‚I really want to live a bold life.‘

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

In difficult times, we’re not supposed to quit believing; we’re not supposed to quit growing.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

But when I hear a great song, I can’t help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

I feel like I have lived all over the world since I get to go everywhere to film.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.

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

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.

A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it’s the restaurant business.

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.