The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

There may not be one Truth – there may be several truths – but saying that is not to say that reality doesn’t exist.

Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‚we have a problem, let’s go and get it‘.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

I’ve had a lot of success; I’ve had failures, so I learn from the failure.

While the family is under attack throughout the world, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints proclaims, promotes, and protects the truth that the family is central to the Creator’s plan for the eternal destiny of His children.

All the learnin‘ my father paid for was a bit o‘ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it’s just noise that can be a distraction.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

From my close observation of writers… they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

I’ve done everything every fat person ever has. I’ve tried every diet.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‚Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.‘

I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn’t want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.

You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that’s left for you or to make one of your own.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

I think I’ve got wiser.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

We’re not a fragile people. We’re not a frightful people. Our power doesn’t come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don’t look to be ruled.

In matters of truth the fact that you don’t want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

I stayed focused, and I never surrendered, and now I’ve been blessed. now I take care of my mother, my father, and my entire whole family.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibilities. Everybody struggles in different ways.

Nothing’s ever easy as long as you go on living.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you’ve become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that’s the height of intelligence.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

Live truth instead of professing it.

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, ‚Why god? Why me?‘ and the thundering voice of God answered, ‚There’s just something about you that pisses me off.‘

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.