The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

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. And when I think about the kind of president that I want for my girls and all our children, that’s what I want.

With Kansas, I had a four-year deal. The initial two months were real tough. I had to adjust a lot. Then, things started looking up.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

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.

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

I’m just like you – I want to be a good human being. I’m doing my best, and I’m working at it. And I’m trying to be a Christian. I’m always amazed when people walk up to me and say, ‚I’m a Christian.‘ I always think, ‚Already? You’ve already got it?‘ I’m working at it. And at my age, I’ll still be working at it at 96.

I’m reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.

There are a lot of inaccuracies out there when it comes to the SEAL training process. You will see guys carrying logs around on television. They think that the hardest part about being on a SEAL team is getting through that training. The fact of the matter is, if you have a good attitude, that training is fun. I had a blast.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.

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

I believe in the battle-whether it’s the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Fun is one of the most important – and underrated – ingredients in any successful venture. If you’re not having fun, then it’s probably time to call it quits and try something else.

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

I don’t intend to stop making music.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end.

I’m not the same man I used to be, I’m not out hell-raising, stuff like that. I am a changed man.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

I’ve been here before and will come again, but I’m not going this trip through.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

The greatest story of all is Colonel Sanders. He didn’t start until he was sixty-six on a freeway bypass for his chicken shop. Anything is possible!

It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

Racing, competing, it’s in my blood. It’s part of me, it’s part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.

Through my films I’m eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don’t know if I’m ever going to get there, but I’m slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I’m 85, I’ll look back and say, ‚All right, that about sums it up.‘

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.

I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty.

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

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ‚Thus far and no farther.‘

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

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

Girls are soft and pretty.

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

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

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implement promises, but keep them.

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.