When things are easy, I hate it.

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.

Optimism is true moral courage.

A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.

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.

Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship

I could still turn back before I pass the last houses and really have to commit to this.

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

Regret for a sinful past will remain until we truly believe that for us in Christ that sinful past no longer exists.

Monarch, thou wishest to cover thyself with glory; be the first to submit to the laws of thy empire.

I make little distinction between those who commit evil and those who stand by and do nothing.

You can't predict how much time you will get to embrace your opportunity. You have to go after it with everything you have in you, sacrifice and believe.

Abandon the secret chamber and the spiritual life will decay.

It has been said that the question, 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' is so profound that it would occur only to a metaphysician, yet so simple that it would occur only to a child.

The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.