A promise made is a debt unpaid.

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

Our breath is brief, and being so Let's make our heaven here below, And lavish kindness as we go.

Just draw on your grit; it's so easy to quit - It's the keeping your chin up that's hard.

Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.

No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.

The Wanderlust has got me... by the belly-aching fire

It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.

This is the law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; that surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive.

Now a promise made is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code.

Life is about making an impact, not making an income.

There are like to be short graces where the devil plays host.

There had to be a better way - if I couldn't find it, I wanted to create it.

George H. W. Bush. He's been a classy guy in his post-presidency.

Once you have found out what you love to do, there is only one goal: to be the best in the world at it.

How does one get bored of life?

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

I have osteoarthritis, which especially affects my knees.

By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.

When you get the call from Quentin Tarantino, it's the call of a lifetime. You don't allow yourself to be vulnerable enough or to be fool enough to expect that phone call to happen, in reality.