I’ll never make it, it will never happen, because they’re never going to hear me ‚cause they’re screaming all the time.

It is no use saying, ‚We are doing our best.‘ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

It’s hard to tell with these Internet startups if they’re really interested in building companies or if they’re just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don’t really want to build a company, they won’t luck into it. That’s because it’s so hard that if you don’t have a passion, you’ll give up.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren’t in a very good mood.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

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.

Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King’s daughter, I would have gone nevertheless.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.

I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.

There are a lot of inaccuracies out there when it comes to the SEAL training process. You will see guys carrying logs around on television. They think that the hardest part about being on a SEAL team is getting through that training. The fact of the matter is, if you have a good attitude, that training is fun. I had a blast.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

A fundamentalist can’t bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

Music helps me tell my story. That’s where I can really be heard. But there’s so much focus on the things that aren’t music.

Of course, there are those critics – New York critics as a rule – who say, ‚Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out and of course it’s good but then she’s a natural writer.‘ Those are the ones I want to grab by the throat and wrestle to the floor because it takes me forever to get it to sing. I work at the language.

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They’ll tell you.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

People don’t realise how difficult it is to work with people day in and day out that know absolutely nothing.

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

Talking isn’t doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

Good luck has its storms.

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

It’s a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

All my life, I’ve been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I’ve come is a bogey.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

If you want to get each individual’s honest opinion, you don’t want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

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

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

I’m terrified of losing my voice.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one’s experiences in common.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

The question isn’t, ‚What do we want to know about people?‘, It’s, ‚What do people want to tell about themselves?‘

Marines don’t know how to spell the word ‚defeat‘.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

The battle is all over except the ‚shouting‘ when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

Mr. T. been to chemo, Mr. T been to radiation, hair fall out… but he’s back. Now I can give hope when I go to the hospital, see the sick kids with cancer, tell them, don’t quit.

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can’t it happen to me? I’m not worried I’m young – it’s an incentive to do the best I can.

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

If you can’t convince them, confuse them.

If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don’t stop, don’t put it down.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.