The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength, through dense belts of brush and forest encumbered with fallen trees and boulder piles, across canons, roaring streams, and snow-fields, ever showing forth beauty and courage.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Marines don’t know how to spell the word ‚defeat‘.

It’s never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.

Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don’t look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I’m trying to pull out of the ground that doesn’t want to come out? I know I’ll win.

I give the name of cosmic sense to the more or less confused affinity that binds us psychologically to the All which envelops us. The existence of this feeling is indubitable, and apparently as old as the beginning of thought… The cosmic sense must have been born as soon as man found himself facing the forest, the sea and the stars.

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.

Young people can create beautiful things.

I’ve had all six of my books reach the New York Times bestseller list, which is especially rewarding seeing as I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write. It just goes to show you that we learn from our mistakes.

A man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly – that is the first law of nature.

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Eight years ago, you may remember Hillary and I were rivals for the Democratic nomination. We battled for a year and a half. Let me tell you, it was tough, because Hillary was tough. I was worn out. She was doing everything I was doing, but just like Ginger Rogers, it was backwards in heels.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

If we don’t succeed we run the risk of failure.

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

If I see a mountain, I just pick up and hike it.

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

Nature does nothing in vain.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

I don’t know that much about who directs what movies, but I’m definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

Before ever meeting Priyanka Chopra, I had heard her name coming out of Bollywood and was impressed: she was beautiful, talented, had made nearly 50 movies, earned multiple awards – a massive star.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

It’s physical. If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

Whoever won’t fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.

I got the stern end of the stick. It was kind of that iron fist. I am who I am today because of my mother.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.

When I was a young man, Dirac was my hero. He made a breakthrough, a new method of doing physics. He had the courage to simply guess at the form of an equation, the equation we now call the Dirac equation, and to try to interpret it afterwards.

From caring comes courage.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‚I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.‘