How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.

The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution

Don't stumble over something behind you.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.

It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

The only person that you should try to be better than, is nobody else but your old self.

I think we're losing our sense of humor instead of being able to relax and laugh at ourselves. I don't care whether it's ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, or whose ox is being gored.

Everyone dies. It's a question of where and how, that's all.

I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

The best Web sites are better than Reality.

It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.

I think that women are more sensitive to emotional infidelity than men. I think men are more scared of physical infidelity.

Logic is not satisfied with assertion. It cares nothing for the opinions of the great; nothing for the prejudices of the many, and least of all for the superstitions of the dead.

I loved 'Rocky' and 'Rambo', and am very proud of them.