If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

Nothing’s ever easy as long as you go on living.

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

I suppose for a very long time I’ve been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives and make meaning and make their lives meaningful in the face of the trouble that life brings.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

I used to watch MotoGP quite a bit, I liked MotoGP. I had a motorbike before I had a go-kart and before I had a motorbike I had a quad bike but I was too dangerous, and before I did quad biking I did horse riding, so it’s been a long journey.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

What one has to do usually can be done.

If we’re going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

People say you have to hit rock bottom, and, I can tell you, almost dying is as rock bottom as it gets.

I’m very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn’t think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that’s happening to me. I’m rather surprised at who I am, because I’m actually like my dad!

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

‚Perfection‘ to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, ‚I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.‘ I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That’s perfection.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

It doesn’t matter if the water is cold or warm if you’re going to have to wade through it anyway.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

When you’re one of the leaders of the team, there are no days off.

Anything I do, I want to do it well.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

When I was four, my mother insisted I get out of the car and find my own way home. Although I got lost, I did find my way home. It taught me the value of independence at an early age.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it’s about earning approval and acceptance.

Have you ever asked yourselves what you are going to do when you grow up? In all likelihood you will get married, and before you know where you are, you will be mothers and fathers; and you will then be tied to a job, or to the kitchen, in which you will gradually wither away. Is that all that your life is going to be?

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

I don’t want to be something that just comes and goes.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

Ageing’s alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

My moms always told me, ‚How long you gonna play the victim?‘ I can say I’m mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.