If you surrender, you have already lost. If you refuse to give up, though, no matter the odds against you, at least you have succeeded in trying.

The universe is our picture. Only the immature imagine the cosmos to be what they think it is.

Discovery is dangerous . . . but so is life. A man unwilling to take risk is doomed never to learn, never to grow, never to live.

No one has yet determined the power of the human species . . . what it may perform by instinct, and what it may accomplish with rational determination.

We are not a nation that says 'don't ask, don't tell.' We are a nation that says 'out of many, we are one.'

I am a firm believer that you don't do anything significant by yourself. Again, maybe there are exceptions. There's the Picasso or the Mozart.

Time is all we have. One lifetime under this name to produce a body of work that says, This is how I saw the world. Your work is worthy of whatever time it takes.

It looks like President Obama has a new campaign slogan: 'Yes I Did.'

Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis.

Being the richest man on a sinking ship is a bitter victory

Conquering others takes force, conquering yourself is true strength.

Only three things can change our lives dreams, suffering and love

Of course, when you're training your whole life to get to the Olympics, you train for gold.

All the mistakes I've ever made in my life have been when I've been drunk. I haven't made hardly any mistakes sober, ever, ever.