Struggle is the meaning of life; defeat or victory is in the hands of God. But struggle itself is man’s duty and should be his joy.

Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, every minute so filled with the life I love that time for me has fled on too swift a wing.

Life is a great and noble calling, not a mean and grovelling thing to be shuffled through as best as we can but a lofty and exalted destiny.

Happiness is never a negative affair; it is to be won by men who are fully alive, full of the joy of living

It takes a lot of practices to get it right. The key is to keep practicing.

To all the living there is hope for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

It's nice to get your glad rags on for awards like the Baftas, but it doesn't happen all the time.

The idea is that the savior came, and simply by the coming of the savior you're saved. Nonsense, human beings wish! If that were the case, we'd live in a perfect world.

Without passions you have no experience whatever.

How were the receipts today in Madison Square Garden ?

I developed friends in the community that were in walking distance or a bicycle ride away, so that I socialized and did a lot of things that children do in their early years.

All prayers die in the air which they uselessly agitate.

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.

I've laid out a very, very detailed immigration plan on my website, tedcruz.org. It's 11 pages of existing federal law and in particular the question of what to do with people who are here now.