Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

I wanted to write a book that talked about the emotions of children, which is the rainbow. We all have moods. We talk about being blue when we’re sad, and being yellow when we’re cowards, and when we’re mad, we’re red.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

We’re going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

We can fear things into existence. Fear looks into the future and imagines the worst that can happen.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

Who is the wise man? He who sees what’s going to be born.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror!

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even… knowledge, was foolproof.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

I want people to follow their dreams, yes… but I’m not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers… I want to show them that there’s so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.

Say not, ‚I have found the truth,‘ but rather, ‚I have found a truth.‘

I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I’d just write.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

In every walk of life, you must have leaders. An education in the spiritual world, in the labor field, in the agricultural field, we must have leaders.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

Cancer is still a word that strikes fear into people’s hearts, producing a deep sense of powerlessness. But today it is possible to find out through a blood test whether you are highly susceptible to breast and ovarian cancer, and then take action.

I’m afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

It’s a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.

The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

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

Life loves the liver of it.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

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.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

I am not promising that God will give you everything you want. There are times when we want things that God knows would not be good for us.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Muhammad Ali is a legend, a hero of mine.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear – fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.