Must I remind you that a chain is no stronger than its weakest link?

It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.

Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit.

The Japanese do not fear God. They only fear bombs.

To the Japanese, Portugal and Russia are neutral enemies, England and America are belligerent enemies, and Germany and her satellites are friendly enemies. They draw very fine distinctions.

It's fear of being afraid that frightens me more than anything else.

Some people will hear you louder in silence. Those are your tribe - they'll get you through the tough days and give you something to laugh about on the ride.

Listening out for the sound of [his parent's] return kept him suspended in a semi-permanent state of agitation just like an apparently sleeping cat whose ear radar never rests.

Are you asking if I ever spied on you while you were taking a shower?

I’ve got this amazing relationship with God that is better than life, itself, so marvelous, so wonderful that everything else can fall apart and I’m okay.

You cannot eat your cake and have it.

Life is rife with frustrations, jealousies and, on occasion, an overwhelming sense of its injustices, but it's a big mistake to let such negative sentiments rule our lives and dictate choices.

I'm obsessed with the mess that's America.

The air and the sky seem to have been freshly washed and polished, and the people too.

... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the direction of the whole.

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.