You understand why some animals eat their young.

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.

Whoever can surprise well must conquer.

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!

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

Visualize yourself doing what is best for you. Commit yourself to excellence. Transform yourself into an excellent person, with constant practice and perseverance. Enjoy and relish the process.

It seemed everything that had ever lived and died in this world had passed through here, had left its indelible imprint.

If someone walks away from me, I just let them walk, and I move on to the next person.

The best of us would rather be popular than right.

We are under [government's] control, and if people don't realize that, they haven't looked around. And if they're not paranoid, they haven't thought about it.

Let me tell you, I am nobody's puppet.

One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.

Cinderella could not be more wonderful, as a woman. You're with her, the whole film. I had to create a guy that was worthy of her affections, and that was difficult.

Above the clouds the sky is always blue.

The more attention you give to the paparazzi, the more it just, like, validates everything . . .