A single tree doesn't make a forest.

Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength.

Only by binding together as a single force will we remain strong and unconquerable.

Even monkeys fall from trees.

Wherever it is you may be, it is your friends who make your world.

Each mistake teaches you something new about yourself. There is no failure, remember, except in no longer trying. It is the courage to continue that counts.

Tomorrow’s victory is today’s practice.

A samurai must remain calm at all times even in the face of danger.

In order to know your enemy, you must become your enemy.

hope for the best, prepare for the worst

Don’t try to eat an elephant for lunch.

Do not seek success just for the sake of succeeding or for self-gratification. Seek a life of impact and significance.

You can be a leader, a follower or out of business.

I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.

Our strength comes from that magic, from the earth and the sky, from the fire and the water. Fly high, swim deep, give back to the earth what she gives you.

Elvis was rock'n'roll. He came from the poverty and the pain.

With dogs and people, it's love in big splashy colours. When you're involved with a cat, you're dealing in pastels.

My peers are all in sensitive jobs - at the C.I.A., the National Security Council, working for the Department of Defense. They can't stand up for me in public.

That's inches away from being millimetre perfect.

Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.

We live in an age in which there is no heroic death.