Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

The British people know that, given strong leadership, time, and a little bit of hope, the forces of good ultimately rally and triumph over evil.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it’s been tested by recession and all manner of challenges – I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose – and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.

Black people in America, people from the struggle, immigrants, it’s no generational wealth that we are attached to, so we are tasked to create – in one generation – closing the gap. That’s why we so Doomsday about getting to the check: ‚cause it’s life or death for real.

The earth is bountiful, and where her bounty fails, nitrogen drawn from the air will refertilize her womb. I developed a process for this purpose in 1900. It was perfected fourteen years later under the stress of war by German chemists.

Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America – land of the free, home of the brave.

Over the course of my career in law enforcement, I have witnessed over and over again the selflessness and sacrifice of law enforcement who lay their lives on the line every day to protect people who they will never meet and people who will never know their names.

You get to a point where it’s like you can’t really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I’m still quite robust.

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war – for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I’d say we deserve ours more.

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

Many will call me an adventurer – and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.

I was so upset with what was going on in the world. I just couldn’t stand the idea of being people tortured and that we even had such a thing as war. I hated the older generation, who had not done anything about it. Punk was a call-to-arms for me.

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.

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.

What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you’re hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.

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.

You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

Serious illness doesn’t bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can’t make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

The devil ain’t got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil’s a good friend, too… because when you don’t know him, that’s the time he can mosh you down.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

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.

War is what happens when language fails.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there… and still on your feet.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They’re solar-powered. If you drop them, they keep on being a book. You can find your place in microseconds. Books are really good at being books, and no matter what happens, books will survive.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.

War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn’t surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

I have known war as few men now living know it. It’s very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

Morality is contraband in war.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

If you look at my life, generally, I’ve been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.