In war, the moral element and public opinion are half the battle.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.

Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.

Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.

Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.

Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.

To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.

The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.

I mean this: every time I come home, I feel like I'm coming back to the world, and when I leave Macomb it's like leaving the world.

.you are not him or her, you be you..

The trick in life is to find out where you belong. Once you find out where you belong, you will be happy there.

The United States has become great because we, as a people, have been able to work together for great objectives even while differing about details.

You don't want to go right, if everyone thinks you're going to go right. You go left, on purpose. Sometimes you can't explain why, and you can't explain what left looks like, but you just do it.

If the people of New Zealand want to be part of our world, I believe they should hop off their islands, and push 'em closer.

Tell me everything, I would say. All about the blues, and the time your heart was broken, and what scares you the most, and the thing you've always wanted to do but haven 't yet.

If you're following your heart, you're moving in the right direction.

I'd love to go to school and have a normal life, but I don't see any professor at Yale being able to teach me more than Steven Spielberg.

It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty!