Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by actions.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.

The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution

Don't stumble over something behind you.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.

It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

You're like a plant. Very pure... so opposite from me that it surprises me. Maybe I can stay pure if I don't have to deal with people.

Thoughts are powerful beyond measure.

Sometimes, it is easier to leave things as they are, rather than to fight, go against the flow.

Poor, successful, fallible Republican party! If it could only have kept the purity of the patriot impulse of which it was born!

Courage is heartworth making itself felt in deeds. It never waits for chances; it makes chances.

Books can be misleading...

The field (of filmmaking) is suddenly sexy, ... so it's deluged with these wannabes who say 'I don't want to be a secret agent, I'll be a filmmaker.' I think a lot of people are really kind of naive.

I wouldn't have thought of myself as a person who could guide anybody and then it turned out that I can.

Being in a rock band, I feel a certain responsibility to have a weird haircut. I mean, who else gets to do that?