They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn’t come here. Well, it can’t hide forever – one day we will overhear it.

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

You fail only if you stop writing.

Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it’s just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.

One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.

You have to believe in your process. You have to believe in the things that you are doing to help the team win. I think you have to take the good with the bad.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there… and still on your feet.

I’m astounded by people who want to ‚know‘ the universe when it’s hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

I think it’s a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

Sure it’s a big job; but I don’t know anyone who can do it better than I can.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

In testing, you make a mistake, you just say ‚OK we’ll have another go‘ instead of it being the only chance you get.

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

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Life is filled with detours and dead ends, trials and challenges of every kind. Each of us has likely had times when distress, anguish, and despair almost consumed us.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

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.

I don’t want to hear the word ‚can’t.‘

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

People just don’t understand how obsessed I am with winning.

The statesman’s duty is to bridge the gap between his nation’s experience and his vision.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.

I’m not a good storm-outer… because I forget stuff.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.

One of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

The left paw has done me well over the years. I’m not a scientist, I’m a martial artist.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‚I’m with you kid. Let’s go.‘

In my career as a director, there’s always been some point where you get halfway through it, or three-quarters, and you go: ‚What is this thing all about, and why am I telling the story? Does anybody really care about seeing this?‘ At that time you have to say: ‚OK, forget that and just go ahead.‘

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

If there be no enemy there’s no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

I identify myself as a hustler since I was a young kid.

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.