What’s coming will come and we’ll just have to meet it when it does.

I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.

It’s not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn’t sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day?

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

I’m very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.

I have often been downcast but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary, I treat all the privations as amusing.

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

I feel like if you’re a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.

A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.

This lady is not for turning.

Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.

It’s no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys.

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

‚9 to 5,‘ that little song, that little story, just won’t ever end. Just like ‚I Will Always Love You,‘ it just keeps comin‘ back, popping up its head in one way or another.

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.

You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.

I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.

Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can’t stop marching. Even when they’re turning the hoses on you, you can’t stop.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

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 was bullied as a boy – lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind – you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

We don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh.

I nearly failed when Virgin was in its infancy; I nearly failed in the early 1980s, and, of course, I have nearly died more than once trying to achieve a world record for boating or ballooning. But through a combination of luck and planning, both Virgin and I are still here.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don’t know the plot. They don’t know their own individual plot… they don’t know what’s going to happen to them.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

You never know with these things when you’re trying something new what can happen. This is all experimental.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids‘ dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We’ve all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

In my entire life, any time I’ve ever lost something, I’ve gotten something even better going around the next corner. It’s like one door closes and another door opens. As long as I can walk through the produce section in every grocery store in this country and eat the grapes that they’re going to throw away, I know I can be fine.

I’m very careful about saying who would and wouldn’t go to heaven. I don’t know.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when – and he won’t necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either.

There are people out there who hate me and who say I’m arrogant, vain, and whatever. That’s all part of my success. I am made to be the best.

Dave Mackay is my definition of a superstar. The man broke his leg three times, but wouldn’t be carried off. He walked off.

The woman that deliberates is lost.

Losing is tough.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone’s guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

People say you have to hit rock bottom, and, I can tell you, almost dying is as rock bottom as it gets.

I can handle pain.

The devil ain’t got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil’s a good friend, too… because when you don’t know him, that’s the time he can mosh you down.

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

If it doesn’t work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I’m still quite robust.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

Marines don’t know how to spell the word ‚defeat‘.

Not only do I not know what’s going on, I wouldn’t know what to do about it if I did.