One should always have one's boots on and be ready to leave.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

A leader should demonstrate his thoughts and opinions through his actions, not through his words.

When you use an armament, you use it to defend the civilians. You kill terrorists in order to defend civilians. That's the natural role of any army in the world.

Train like a beauty look like a beast

Let's create, not destroy. Let's believe and not doubt.

The warrior must continue to make decisions in the face of extreme circumstances. He cannot afford to get angry or frightened.

learning must travel the distance from head to heart.

How many are worried about a government shutdown? How many are more worried about it starting back up?

Activity leads to productivity!

more and more I come to loathe any dominion of one over another; any leadership, any imposition of the will.

We need the kind of leadership exemplified by President Kennedy to just do it! But we must do it as good stewards, aggressively exerting control over the moon. We can best do this by going there.