It’s life isn’t it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

I think music is something that can, and should, be used to get you into different things because eventually what goes up must come down – we’re not going to be the number one group in the world forever – so you have to have something else to fall back on.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

Lost time is never found again.

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

The American doctor, in my opinion, possesses a combination of conservatism and that other quality which has put the United States in the forefront in almost every department of science – that is, an eagerness to know what it is really all about in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it.

You can’t die with an unfinished book.

This has always been my life and no one else’s, and that’s how it’s always been since the day I came in it.

When you bring in multi-brand retail items into the country, you’re not just bringing the products, but you’re also harming local manufacturers.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

I’ve been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don’t think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.

At the end of the day, I understand that life has road blocks, and life is like school – you’ll be tested; we gotta pass it.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

There is no wealth but life.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive – that you can touch the miracle of being alive – then that is a kind of enlightenment.

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains. I know. I’ve done it.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

It’s a rule to give all, and it can make the difference if you work more. If you don’t have to give all, and you still win, what’s this?

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

My message to all the activists is to just keep going, and I know it really may seem impossible and hopeless sometimes – it always does – so you just have to keep going because if you try hard enough and long enough you will make a difference.

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

Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

In this industry, there’s a lot of cases of being a competitor in one way, but you’re often a customer and a vendor in another way. It’s not atypical in aerospace. Actually, it’s not that atypical in a lot of industries.

Death is a fearful thing.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.

We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government.

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

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

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.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.

Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Even though you are on the right track – you will get run over if you just sit there.