Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

I didn’t work hard to sit down and not work.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

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.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.

Russia isn’t going to start a war. They can’t afford it. I think Mr. Putin can be dealt with if we stop screaming at him. You can work with the guy. You just have to know who he is.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

I’ve been through natural disasters. I lived down in Miami and was down there for Hurricane Andrew which was a Category 5. There were members of my family that thought they were going to die. Everyone was in the bathtub.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.

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.

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

Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

When my ancestors came from Africa, they were shackled by our neck, our wrists, and our ankles in steel chains. I’ve turned those steel chains into gold to symbolize the fact that I’m still a slave, only my price tag is higher.

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon – no alternative.

There are certain things that bother me and certain things that don’t. Personal attacks on me? I think I’m just so used to it.

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn’t make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing – continue to rock it – because obviously, God wants you here.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

When I get on a roll with something, it’s really hard for me to put it down unfinished.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

Eight years ago, you may remember Hillary and I were rivals for the Democratic nomination. We battled for a year and a half. Let me tell you, it was tough, because Hillary was tough. I was worn out. She was doing everything I was doing, but just like Ginger Rogers, it was backwards in heels.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

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.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

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.

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!

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

It is no use saying, ‚We are doing our best.‘ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Perseverance is also key to success in any endeavor, but without perseverance in combat, there can be no victory.

The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.

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.

It sounds simple telling people to work hard and never quit, but to really execute and demonstrate those principles takes discipline and faith. Those are the two factors that I believe separate the good from the great, the successes from the failures.

I don’t expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.