At one point he decided enough was enough.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

I don’t want to spend money the club doesn’t have; I don’t want to hold a player that doesn’t want to stay.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

One of the key qualities a leader must possess is the ability to detach from the chaos, mayhem, and emotions in a situation and make good, clear decisions based on what is actually happening.

Nothing is stopping me from doing what I love to do.

I never make conscious decisions.

I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn’t think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape.

To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.

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.

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I’m on course, and I’m doing what God wants me to do. I’m real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.

I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.

I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself to drive me. I’m a very driven person. I have passion that almost scares people, just to be successful and make it no matter what.

Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.

Never give in – never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Eight, as you know, is not a good number for a multi-member court.

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

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.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.

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.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

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.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

I was a fighting machine with a will of iron.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

It’s not called quitting if you quit while you ahead. It’s about being aware and being strategic enough to know that you got to get out the pool at some point. You got to put your clothes back on and dry off.

I am not afraid of saying something and going and pursuing it. That’s it. I see it in my mind. I say it out loud. I go and do it.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

Finality is not the language of politics.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

To do your best is no longer good enough. We now have to do the seemingly impossible.

Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

Engage your brain before you engage your weapon.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.