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.

This is not Johnson’s war. This is America’s war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.

Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

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

I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

Genius is patience.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

If you tell me there’s something I can’t do, I’ll want to do it even more. Especially when it comes to entertaining.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

There’s an ecstatic side to writing. It’s like jazz. It just has a life.

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

The Congo was the most difficult shoot of my life but was also maybe the greatest adventure of my life.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

I need to do well and show I’m a worthy driver in F1.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

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

If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

I’m the most stubborn person I know.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

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.

I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, ‚There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.‘ But I’m not going to worry about them. I’m dreaming the hardest.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

They might not need me; but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

You just wait. I’m going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.