Once the will is resolved, one's spirit is strengthened. Even a peasant's will is hard to deny, but a samurai of resolute will can sway ten thou­sand men.

What is important in a leader is a resolute will and determination. A man may be versatile and learned, but if he lacks resoluteness and determination, of what use will he be?

To consider oneself different from ordinary men is wrong, but it is right to hope that one will not remain like ordinary men.

If the body dies, it does no harm to the mind, but if the mind dies, one can no longer act as a man even though the body survives.

It seems hopeless, hopeless. Those who eat meat [at public expense] are a mean, selfish lot, and so the country is doomed. Our only hope lies in the grass-roots folk who eat our traditional food.

Life and death, union and separation, follow hard upon one another. Nothing is steadfast but the will, nothing endures but one's achieve­ments. These alone count in life.

Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature.

No true Latter-day Saint and no true American can be a socialist or a communist.

Like any woman, I worry about my body.

Oh no! Don't drag us away from Antartica and take us to the playground of the rich and famous! Not that briar patch! -Max

There's a responsibility in being a person. It's more than just taking up space where air would be.

It's important that we remind the American people of what they already know about Obamacare - that the promises that were made were all broken.

With ski jumping I reached a plateau and the more I did it the worse I got.

Just because one likes to cook up a great meal or decorate their home doesn't mean they have to do it with granite counter tops and duck a l'orange.

It is night, And it is vanity, and age Blackens the heart of Adam. Fear, The yellow chirper, beaks its cage.