At one point he decided enough was enough.

When I get on a roll with something, it’s really hard for me to put it down unfinished.

I don’t think about that. I wasn’t a kid growing up saying one day I’ll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn’t on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.

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.

You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes because that’s where the fruit is.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

Locally, I’ll vote one way and nationally, maybe another.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

One reason I don’t want to play in England again is because we don’t have any personalities.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

I don’t think I will ever be content. I am somebody who is always hungry.

I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.

I bade adieu to mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God.

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

If the critics are right that I’ve made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.

When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there’s a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we’re going to see things through to the finish or quit.

‚Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

I like to work and am a focused person.

Let’s just be smart this time. I’m looking for smart.

Not one person can make or break what I’m doing, except me or God.

Engage your brain before you engage your weapon.

With Benghazi, I don’t see anyone saying, ‚Hey look, I am overall responsible for this and therefore, I take responsibility for what happened. It’s my fault.‘ I haven’t heard that yet. Meanwhile, the other side of the coin, the Osama bin Laden raid, it seems everyone made that decision, and that’s just unbelievable to me.

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I’m taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.

I’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

I was a fighting machine with a will of iron.

If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you’re making a mistake but let you go on with it, that’s when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

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 intend to live forever, or die trying.

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

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

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

It’s easier to aim to please and say what others want to hear than to form an opinion and fight for it, even if it means taking a risk or losing your job.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

It’s no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can’t stop marching. Even when they’re turning the hoses on you, you can’t stop.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can’t wait for a feeling to motivate you.

You can’t have a value structure without a hierarchy. They’re the same thing because a value structure means one thing takes precedence over another.

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation – and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.