There is no room for military people, including our veterans, to see themselves as victims, even if so many of our countrymen are prone to relish that role.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

We’ve been programmed, from the time that we were very, very little, about what we can’t do – about what is impossible.

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against: with.

In Japan, the writers have made up a literary community, a circle, a society. I think 90 percent of Japan’s writers live in Tokyo. Naturally, they make a community. There are groups and customs, and so they are tied up in a way.

So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you’re a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

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

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

People want you to fail.

I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.

One thing Britons have always been celebrated for, and that is being able to stick it out in a tight place.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

I’ve been to those places where it’s ‚poor, pitiful me.‘

Saints can be happy under every circumstance.

Black people in America, people from the struggle, immigrants, it’s no generational wealth that we are attached to, so we are tasked to create – in one generation – closing the gap. That’s why we so Doomsday about getting to the check: ‚cause it’s life or death for real.

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

We are a nation founded as a rebuke to tyranny. A nation of revolutionaries who refused sovereign reign from afar. Hear me – we’re a nation that says give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. A nation built on our differences, guided by the belief that we’re all created equal.

‚Fahrenheit 451‘ postulates a lot of things I didn’t want to have happen.

Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there’s the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn’t do it the way somebody told you to do it.

Mortality is very different when you’re 20 to when you’re 50.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

I do not see myself as a celebrity or an icon or things like that… I have not really done anything.

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.

After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

I don’t really focus on these things – on what tags are given to me or what people think of me off the field – stuff like that. My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

Losing is tough.

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it’s not like I am hopeless.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.

Yeah, it’s pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

People in Latin America… love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.

I think people take me as seriously as I want them to. They take me as seriously as I take myself – let’s put it that way.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

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

Don’t be afraid to see what you see.

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.