He who will not risk cannot win.

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.

I have not yet begun to fight!

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

Whoever can surprise well must conquer.

It is true that I must run a great risk; no gallant action was ever accomplished without danger.

An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood; but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it.

I may sink, but I'll be damned if I strike!

You understand why some animals eat their young.

Where men of fine feeling are concerned there is seldom misunderstanding.

Jesus Christ is the most outstanding person who has ever lived on planet earth

You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.

If a man smiles all the time, he’s probably selling something that doesn’t work.

People reveal so much of their mental processes online, simply because the psychological effect of anonymity just means that a whole raft of inhibitions are left alone when people log on.

As far as songwriters, I've always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.

I think that any good storytelling lends itself to closing a chapter but also knowing that there's a few more volumes beyond that to dream off of.

You know the Singaporean. He is a hard-working, industrious, rugged individual. Or we would not have made the grade. But let us also recognise that he is a champion grumbler.

Twenty to one offend more in writing too much than too little.

A World is not an ideology nor a scientific institution, nor is it even a system of ideologies; rather, it is a structure of unconscious relations and symbiotic processes.

I like to go and do something adventurous. I like to go out and do some sort of crazy activity.