I come from – I came from Wales, and it’s a strong, butch society. We were in the war and all that. People didn’t waste time feeling sorry for themselves. You had to get on with it. So my credo is get on with it. I don’t waste time being soft. I’m not cold, but I don’t like being, wasting my time with – life’s too short.

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.

Literally wrote ‚Starboy‘ in 30 minutes.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

When my ancestors came from Africa, they were shackled by our neck, our wrists, and our ankles in steel chains. I’ve turned those steel chains into gold to symbolize the fact that I’m still a slave, only my price tag is higher.

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.

To our brothers in Latin America and the world, we must convey that the Cuban people will overcome.

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn’t make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.

In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don’t kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

I have a company, and I’ve got to think about that. I’m trying to do my best there, and that’s a much harder task. We recycle as much as possible, and we conserve. But I’ve always been one to save everything – I even walk up stairs on the very inside or the very outside to not wear out the tread.

We come bulletproof in Ireland. We’re reared tough, and we fight.

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 experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

One of the problems of organizing in the North, in the rich countries, is that people tend to think – even the activists – that instant gratification is required. You constantly hear: ‚Look I went to a demonstration, and we didn’t stop the war so what’s the use of doing it again?‘

As an athlete, you’d better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

I do believe in the old saying, ‚What does not kill you makes you stronger.‘ Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

When you’re in hell, you forget how great you really are because you’re suffering and you forget the great things you’ve done.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

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

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

My mother raised me with God. We were poor financially, but we were rich spiritually.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

The American claim that the bombing of North Vietnam was directed against military targets does not withstand direct investigation.

There is no education like adversity.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.

It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible.

I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I’m doing, you know what I mean? And I think what’s gon‘ separate whoever’s gon go for something, that you ain’t gon‘ quit.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

In college, a loss is pretty devastating. That feeling kind of goes away in an 82-game season. You hate to lose, but you also have a lot more games to make up for it.

There’s people that tried to celebrate when I lost that got nothing to do with it. That’s not the sign of a champion.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

My show ‚The Big House‘ was picked up; they flew me to New York. I’m about to step on stage to announce Kevin Hart’s ‚The Big House.‘ And a hand grabs my shoulder, ‚Kevin no, they just decided to cancel it.‘ It’s a serious smack-in-the-face business, and either you can take it, or you can’t.

One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

If you don’t stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backwards.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

A war is a horrible thing, but it’s also a unifier of countries.

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neurone disease. But it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I could still do.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

If there is not the war, you don’t get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don’t get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

I’d go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.

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

I didn’t die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn’t survive certain things… people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst… for many reasons, I shouldn’t be here.