Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.

God doesn’t call us to comfort

I’ll never speak to God again.

She had come to letters late in her life, and though she had mastered them, they had never become her good friends.

I am positive - determined to move forward with my life, bring up my babies, and do the best job I can as a mother, entertainer, and person.

No nation deserves freedom or can long retain it which does not win it for itself. Revolutions must be made by the people and for the people.

Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.

In the case of pilots, it is a little touch of madness that drive us to go beyond all known bounds. Any search into the unknown is an incomparable exploitation of oneself.

It took me a long time to get used to the reality that my grandmother had passed away. Wherever I was, in the house, in the garden, out on the fields, her face always appeared so clearly to me.

I had given up the guitar between '75 and '78. I completely lost interest. I was sick of hearing other guitar players and I was tired of my tunes.

I love Mount Fuji and I think it is my love of the mountains in Japan that led me to seek other mountains around the world.