In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war.

Life is our dictionary.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Morse conquered his electrical difficulties although he was only a painter, and I don’t intend to give in either till all is completed.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

There is a ‚sanctity‘ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories – not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father’s generation. It’s a kind of inheritance, the memory of it.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

It kills me to lose. If I’m a troublemaker, and I don’t think that my temper makes me one, then it’s because I can’t stand losing. That’s the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

The earth is bountiful, and where her bounty fails, nitrogen drawn from the air will refertilize her womb. I developed a process for this purpose in 1900. It was perfected fourteen years later under the stress of war by German chemists.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It’s when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

America means far more than a continent bounded by two oceans. It is more than pride of military power, glory in war, or in victory. It means more than vast expanse of farms, of great factories or mines, magnificent cities, or millions of automobiles and radios.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

This is not a bad life.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Sure it’s a big job; but I don’t know anyone who can do it better than I can.

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Don’t swap horses in crossing a stream.

There is something about building up a comradeship – that I still believe is the greatest of all feats – and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

Gains achieved at great cost against our enemy in Afghanistan are reversible.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering – and it’s all over much too soon.

Thou know’st the first time that we smell the air we wawl and cry. When we are born we cry, that we are come to this great state of fools.

You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

Defeat doesn’t finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits.

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.