True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.

I hoped to be able to write a novel which would enable me to live on it while I wrote the next.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

Selling out is doing something you don’t really want to do for money. That’s what selling out is.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don’t let anyone persuade you to say it.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

Our inquiring friends and neighbors not of our faith can also catch the wave. We encourage them to keep all that is good and true in their lives. And we invite them to receive more, especially the glorious truth that through God’s eternal plan, families can be together forever.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

If you’re trying too hard to be the girl next door, you’re not going to be.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

To our brothers in Latin America and the world, we must convey that the Cuban people will overcome.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.

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

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

I wrote ‚Channel Orange‘ in two weeks. The end product wasn’t always that gritty, real-life depiction of the real struggle that happened.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.

That’s something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

Sometimes God will deliver you from the fire, and other times God will make you fireproof.

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‚Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.‘

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

You don’t have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it’s hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you’ve got to let it grow.

If you’re lying, you’re lying.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

In any profession it gets to be a grind.

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.

Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade one or are slow in coming. All that is really worth while is action – faithful action, for the world, and in God.