When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed the worst, and with continued unity of effort, we shall rapidly recover. There is one certainty of the future of a people of the resources, intelligence and character of the people of the United States – that is, prosperity.

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.

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.

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.

My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely.

I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

If you try to protect yourself from pain, it becomes a stone in your heart. But the more you learn to face things, the more likely that stone can become a pearl.

I am not afraid of saying something and going and pursuing it. That’s it. I see it in my mind. I say it out loud. I go and do it.

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst.

You can’t die with an unfinished book.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

In 1995, I was diagnosed with cancer, and I had to practice what I preached. I had always said to ‚believe in God‘ and ‚don’t give up‘ to little kids who had been diagnosed with cancer. I then thought if I can’t call on that same God and same strength that I told people about, I would be a liar and a phony.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

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

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

I bear a charmed life.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

War does not determine who is right – only who is left.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don’t sell that many records.

I was the kid that was the 199th pick that never had the body for it. People didn’t think I’d play one year in the NFL, and now I’m going on my 17th year.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Because, you know, resilience – if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you’d be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn’t a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you’re moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

If you have to stand and fight, you train yourself so that you’re able to do it.

My priority is cricket. Everything that I get apart from it is a result of the effort on the field. Everything else follows. I am pretty aware of my priorities, and I don’t really focus on things that are not as important to me as cricket.

A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don’t ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren’t blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart.

When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

I won’t belong to any organization that would have me as a member.

God helps those who help themselves.

I think that’s why my career is going to be so long: Because I haven’t given people everything.

I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

People say ‚I want to be rich‘. The question is, ‚Are you willing to do what it takes?‘

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I’m trying to pull out of the ground that doesn’t want to come out? I know I’ll win.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

You can’t stop everything from happening. But we’ve gotten to a point where we’re certainly trying. If a car doesn’t have four hundred air bags in it, then it’s no good.

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

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