A little boy was asked how he learned to skate. 'By getting up every time I fell down,' he answered.

Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling.

Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.

We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back.

Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.

A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.

He who doesn't consider himself is seldom considerate of others.

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons.

Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.

Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.

The function of a heart is to keep the body alive, I genuinely believe it is mind which takes care of everything else.

To take that risk, to offer life and remain alive, open yourself like this and become whole.

Increase is God’s blessing to us all and at the same time it is his commandment that we should increase

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

First of all I think that poetry is very noble and I always have with me the sense of the nobility of poetry.

I'm just going to let my record in Congress speak for itself.

A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.

You're an island of reality in an ocean of diarrhea.

We have a lot of sort of received historical ways of viewing portraiture. And I suppose in some way I'm sort of questioning that by toying with the rules of the game.

After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.