There are many victories worse than a defeat.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

I’m seeing the world partially through the eyes of a kid. Not all the time. There’s no black and white to it. But sometimes I’m seeing it like I’m 4.

You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.

The thing I always say to people is this: ‚If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.‘

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

Under the worst conditions, horrendous conditions, people still, you know, fight for their rights and don’t just succumb.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They’re solar-powered. If you drop them, they keep on being a book. You can find your place in microseconds. Books are really good at being books, and no matter what happens, books will survive.

I was born in London in England in 1934. I went through, as a child, the horrors of World War II, through a time when food was rationed and we learned to be very careful, and we never had more to eat than what we needed to eat. There was no waste. Everything was used.

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.

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

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind – this attitude of uncertainty – is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire.

I never woke up and thought, ‚I really want to live a bold life.‘

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius.

When you’re writing a novel, you don’t want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that. Reality simply consists of different points of view.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

The bottom line is that everyone thinks differently.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation – and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

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.

I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God’s Word that showed me I wasn’t living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.

To make headway, improve your head.

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

‚Suffering should not make us bitter people,‘ my mother once said, ‚it should make us better comforters.‘ Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they’ll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

In crises the most daring course is often safest.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

Few people realize that luck is created.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

My dad always said, ‚Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.‘

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

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

The sun doesn’t always shine in West Virginia, but the people do.

Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap – it is all in the mind.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.