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

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.

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.

I do not know what 'moss' stands for in the proverb , but if it stood for useful knowledge... I gathered more moss by rolling than I ever did at school.

Curiosity fueled our determination to keep questioning.

A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.

I hate when people don't keep their word or they are late. Tardiness is a big pet peeve of mine.

Sexual passion is the cause of war and the end of peace, the basis of what is serious... and consequently the concentration of all desire

You see, things being good has nothing to do with how you feel outside, it is all to do with how you are inside.

A conservative is a liberal mugged by reality.

We got victims out there that are getting shot four and five times, point blank range. That's not self-defense. You're not going to tell me that's self-defense.

Governor Romney is a good debater.

We want but two or three friends, but these we cannot do without, and they serve us in every thought we think.

I'd sell my soul to the devil if he'd buy such a weakly, puny, piffling little soul, just really to live and be something besides a "thoroughly nice girl" for one short year.