Optimism is true moral courage.

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.

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.

Problems don't get better with time they become better when you find bravery. Success demands that you fight your fears.

Whatever we know as children, this is the world, eaten whole and without question.

Successful writing is a slow, daily, meticulous form of mental illness.

Killers are clever, victims are the people which are scare from the negativity. That's how it goes and it will go.

Friends are the sunshine of life.

Periodical godliness is perpetual hypocrisy.

Iraq is so bad that President Obama phoned Hillary Clinton and asked her if she could start early.

If you will not rise above the things of this world, they will rise above you.

I used to go out with actresses and other female impersonators.

Most troublesome is the legalization of 'crowd funding,' the ability of start-up companies to raise capital from small investors on the Internet.