It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?

When it all got taken away, I was becoming a young man. So I had to sacrifice to leave my family… Sleeping in my car, getting an apartment for a month and getting evicted the next month. Staying in the $25, $50 hotels.

One of the great strengths of the United States is… we have a very large Christian population – we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.

Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

Some of the most moving experiences I’ve had are just in black churches in the South, during the Civil Rights Movement, where people were getting beaten, killed, really struggling for the most elementary rights.

I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That’s why now, even when I get tired, I think, ‚This is what I asked for.‘

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider… the riders contend for its possession.

Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.

What prevails in every corner of this globalized world is the real struggle of our species for its own survival.

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

It’s always a struggle growing up in Akron.

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one’s own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

Life is warfare.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

A man’s character is his fate.

It’s the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.

I read to my kid, but I can’t stand reading.

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

I feel impressed to counsel those engaged in personal challenges to do right. In particular, my heart reaches out to those who feel discouraged by the magnitude of their struggle.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

My folks ain’t graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family – and I come from a big family.

A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.

No other country in the world does what we do. On every issue, the world turns to us, not simply because of the size of our economy or our military might – but because of the ideals we stand for, and the burdens we bear to advance them.

Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it’s unbelievable!

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

I’ve written some great things. That’s a gift, but there’s consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

The truth is that the vast majority of Americans are good, fair, and just, and they want their country to reflect those ideals.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

What nourishes me also destroys me.

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.