If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.

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.

When things are easy, I hate it.

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.

A lie has many colours, while white is the only faithful colour of truth.

What can you do to ensure that your voice value translates into impression value?

That soul-subduing sentiment, harshly called flirtation, which is the spell of a country house.

I remember hitting Sarah Michelle Gellar with a right hook during my first week on the job. It was awful. They usually pair actors with stunt doubles to avoid things like that.

I do believe in God. That's why I'm alive.

When people are divided, the only solution is agreement.

The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices.

God gave man an upright countenance to survey the heavens, and to look upward to the stars.

How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles.

By statute, Congress has given the president the authority to suspend immigration - any class of immigration if he deems it in the national interest.