I thought you'd rather have a live donkey than a dead lion.

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.

Marketing is so powerful that it can make even an extremely untalented musician a one-hundred-hits wonder.

My opportunities were still there nay they multiplied tenfold but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.

If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit Awards.

Well, I don't like to make outlandish statements. Not all the time. But Wimbledon would have beaten them 10-0.

Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause.

It is not designed that the road should be made too smooth for us here upon earth.

Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and there's a reason for that: they are action movies but they are also touched by current events without being political or too serious.

Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!

When I have won a victory I do not repeat my tactics but respond to circumstances in an infinite variety of ways.