I've never began any important venture for which I felt adequate prepared

That is one of the reasons why a man should pick a path with heart, so that he can find his laughter.

In the long run we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.

He prefers the security of known misery to the misery of unfamiliar insecurity.

Often things are as bad as they seem.

If I reveal myself without worrying about how others will respond, then some will care, though others may not. But who can love me, if no one knows me? I must risk it, or live alone.

You can't make anyone love you. You just have to reveal who you are and take your chances. (105)

Transformations require that we let go of familiar ways of doing things, without yet knowing what we will do next.

To live without the creative potential of our own destructiveness is to be a cardboard angel.

Everything good is costly, and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost you your innocence, your illusions, your certainty. (10)

He may only get to keep that which he is willing to let go of.

Photography helps people to see.

Our love, our gratitude, our admiration for our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their families - all of that is bigger than any one party or any one election.

I don't watch trailers, I like to go into every movie fresh.

The kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you!

I love truth, although I shall die hating mere facts, because they are misleading.

There are three words that convey the secret of the art of living, the secret of all success and happiness. One With Life.

Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.

We work in the dark -- we do what we can -- we give what we have.

You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all, outside the dictatorship of someone else's narrative.

I have been hit by the Americans and tortured. I have been beaten on every place of my body, and the signs are all over my body.