Whoever can surprise well must conquer.

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.

I have not yet begun to fight!

He who will not risk cannot win.

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

It is true that I must run a great risk; no gallant action was ever accomplished without danger.

An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood; but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it.

I may sink, but I'll be damned if I strike!

You understand why some animals eat their young.

Where men of fine feeling are concerned there is seldom misunderstanding.

The very essence of life is to love and very essence of love is to be beloved.

You can win, it'll just cost you some money.

No matter what the competition is, I try to find a goal that day and better that goal.

Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind.

Again, as egotistical as I am, as self-centered as I am, and as much as I love strangers idolizing me, I find it very crass to be self-promoter in a way.

If you're a good composer, you steal good steals.

One never knows what life may have in store for us, and it's always good to know where the emergency exit is.

If your activities don't match your priorities, you are wasting your life.

The journalist's job is to get the story by breaking into their offices, by bribing, by seducing people, by lying, by anything else to break through the palace guard.

Since the revolution of the 18th century, America has basically had an ideology of liberal democracy and constitutionalism.