Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver five minutes longer.

Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

I’m convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn’t even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed experiment does not invalidate the greater goal. If that was the case, we’d never have had the light bulb.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

It’s life isn’t it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don’t have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I’m sure he didn’t call everybody jerks.

I don’t fear anybody… at all.

I don’t know what drives me to succeed.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

What is once well done is done forever.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider… the riders contend for its possession.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

I would storm the gates of Hell if Third Marine Air Wing was overhead.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.

It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

I’ve always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

I am fearless.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

I’m inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

When I say something’s going to happen, it’s going to happen.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

Music is really driving my whole life.

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

I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Working hard is very important. You’re not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

Freedom lies in being bold.

I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‚I forgive. I’m finished with it.‘

Members of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir are not superhuman. They are ordinary people with ordinary frailties. But therein lies the power of their example.

What keeps me going is goals.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

I’ve been blessed to be somebody that’s been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it’s all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I’m saying, and it feels good ‚cause it’s good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible.

Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else’s ideas of who you can or can’t become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a ‚Keep Out‘ sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.