To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.

A cool breeze stirred my hair at that moment, as the night wind began to come down from the hills, but it felt like a breath from another world.

They fell, but o'er their glorious grave Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save.

No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.

Jealousy is the forerunner of love, and often its awakener.

In spite of Jean-Jacques and his school, men are not everywhere born free, any more than they are everywhere in chains, unless these be of their own individual making.

Every man carries with him the world in which he must live.

Death is only a translation of life into another language.

What has life given me? The beginning is fire, the end is a heap of ashes, and between the end and the beginning lies all the pain in the world.

A basic rule of life for reporters is that you should spend your time talking with and learning about people who are not sending you press releases, rather than those who are.

To understand me, you have to meet me and be around me. And then only if I'm in a good mood - don't meet me in a bad mood.

Boxing has kept me off the streets, stops me smoking and drinking and gives me something to do.

But maybe as I get older, I begin to see beauty where I least expected it before.

We are built on a structure of the freedom of religion and the non-establishment of religion. That really is a pretty sturdy rudder for the U.S.

It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs.

Things kind of happen organically with me.

To be a great offensive rebounder, you have to think like a defensive rebounder and battle for position while also being in the flow of your offense. And then it's just being determined.

The New Deal is inconsistent with the principles of limited government and with the constitutional provisions designed to secure that end.

I am aware that I preach a religious doctrine understood and accepted by a very small part of the religious world, when I point out the relation of the religious concept to physical fitness.