After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied.

I chose life over death for myself and my friends... I believe it is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.

If you're a leader, a fellow that other fellows look to, you've got to keep going.

Difficulties are just things to overcome after all.

By endurance we conquer.

I have often marveled at the thin line which separates success from failure.

Optimism is true moral courage.

A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.

When things are easy, I hate it.

Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.

I called to the other men that the sky was clearing, and then a moment later I realized that what I had seen was not a rift in the clouds but the white crest of an enormous wave.

As for the tokens whereof thou ask me, I may tell thee of them in part: but as touching thy life, I am not sent to shew thee.

We must have been hunters and gatherers but some of us were just waiters and hopers.

All action in theatre must have inner justification, be logical, coherent, and real.

If this is a Great Society, I'd hate to see a bad one.

A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Hatred is never anything but fear - if you feared no one, you would hate no one.

Sincerity carries the soul in all simplicity to open its heart to God.

The finest gift you can give to any fisherman is to put a good fish back, and who knows if the fish that you caught isn't someone else's gift to you?

In prosperity, give thanks to God with humility and fear lest by pride you abuse God's benefits and so offend him.

My strength is in my ability to be versatile.