A nation recruits men more easily than it can retrieve its honour.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.

Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.

Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.

Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.

Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.

To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.

The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.

It is not by man's power that you are here, but by a greater Power. That Power will stay with you.

I learned later that I had smartly discovered the way of defeating anything: believing that you're stronger than you are.

No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant.

It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.

I think our trade policies, for many, many years, have been a disaster. They have benefited corporate America at the expense of working people.

My characters are never heroic. They are mostly lost and trying to find the right door to open and they end up opening the wrong doors.

I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life.

This is about as comforting as a cold brick when you're lonely.

Those situations are weird. You're in a room, and I knew they already loved this guy [for the role], so you're like, "OK, this is a different dynamic."

It's important to lighten up a bit!