There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

You’ve got to have faith in what you’re doing and not take no for an answer.

The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

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.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

Americans never quit.

People want to tear me down, they were going to knife me anyway.

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.

I’m not going to limit myself just because people won’t accept the fact that I can do something else.

Not having hope is not an excuse for not doing something.

A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.

If I wished to do something, even if I couldn’t find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would go out solo climbing. I did find solo climbing very challenging and a little frightening. You knew that you were completely on your own, and you had to overcome all the problems and possible dangers.

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.

I bade adieu to mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

I’ve had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

It’s important that we invest in America – literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can’t let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

If there’s one thing that’s certain in business, it’s uncertainty.

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.

We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we’re able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.

I feel like people can relate to me because we all go through wins and roadblocks and passion and pain, and it’s a vibe.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

My mother raised me with God. We were poor financially, but we were rich spiritually.

Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger’s skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

No sooner said than done – so acts your man of worth.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I’m glad I lived out both roles.

I promise you, I will have something on the Internet that is game-changing. I can’t lose.

Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

I don’t want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

I was willing to accept what I couldn’t change.

One mustn’t close one’s eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

If you deserve it, go get it.

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

I don’t like looking back. I’m always constantly looking forward. I’m not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I’m too busy looking for the next cow.

My faith was tested like Job. That’s the message I try to tell other people: just because you believe in God, serve God, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, people gotta realize, it don’t mean things not gonna happen to you.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.