It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

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

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

I remember coming to New York in 1974 to do a play here called ‚Equis.‘ And I remember the first morning getting up and walking around the streets, and I thought, ‚I’m home.‘ I felt really at peace here.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

I’m just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.

When one door is closed, don’t you know, another is open.

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.

There’s many ups and downs in the fight game.

I’m very type-A, and many things in my life are about control and domination, but eating should be a submissive experience, where you let down your guard and enjoy the ride.

You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

I’m very picky; I’m never happy with anything. It’s so hard to give the record away and accept that you’re done.

Indeed, we’re strongest when the face of America isn’t only a soldier carrying a gun but also a diplomat negotiating peace, a Peace Corps volunteer bringing clean water to a village, or a relief worker stepping off a cargo plane as floodwaters rise.

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.

When things are going bad, there’s going to be some good that’s going to come from it.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don’t think it’s intelligent, and it’s not sane. So why would you want to support it?

The word ‚Islam‘ means ‚peace.‘ The word ‚Muslim‘ means ‚one who surrenders to God.‘ But the press makes us seem like haters.

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.

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

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

Defending peace is the duty of all.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‚Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.‘

You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

People in tough times – it doesn’t mean they don’t have a great attitude.

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

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.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.

If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don’t let it get the best of you.

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.

Death is the king of this world: ‚Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

I’m not the sort of person who gives up on things. The first time we crossed the Atlantic in the balloon, it crashed, and we went on and did the Pacific. First time we crossed the Atlantic in a boat, it sank, and we went on and got the record. So, generally speaking, we will pick ourselves up, brush ourselves down, and carry on.