If you’ll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives

Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing — the result

The rulers of the earth plan, and scheme, and make laws, and change laws, and war, and pull down one, and raise up another. But they little think that they rule only by the will of Jesus, and that nothing happens without the permission of the Lamb of God.

I believe in the power of books. They’re like a portable life.

I’ve discovered that if you keep knocking long enough, someone will eventually let you in

It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.

The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic. His opinions are determined not by his reason — ‘the bulk of mankind’ says Swift ‘is as well qualified for flying as for thinking’ — but by his passions; and the faintest of all human passions is the love of truth. He believes that the text of ancient authors is generally sound, not because he has acquainted himself with the elements of the problem, but because he would feel uncomfortable if he did not believe it; just as he believes, on the same cogent evidence, that he is a fine fellow, and that he will rise again from the dead.

My inclination to go by the Air Express is confirmed by the crash they had yesterday, which will make them more careful in the immediate future.

They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man,
The lads that will die in their glory and never be old.

Clay lies still, but blood’s a rover;
Breath’s a ware that will not keep.
Up, lad: when the journey’s over
There’ll be time enough to sleep.

It may not be improper, however, to remark two consequences, evidently flowing from an extension of the federal power to every subject falling within the idea of the “general welfare.” One consequence must be, to enlarge the sphere of discretion allotted to the executive magistrate… The other consequence would be, that of an excessive augmentation of the offices, honors, and emoluments, depending on the executive will.

To share my experience I would just like to say that life at my age will just seem more or less just like a long march which will be like going to and from the lavatory.

In that moment I found a power beyond any I’d had before, a will and a determination I would never have need if not for Lucinda, a fortitude I hadn’t been able to find for a lesser cause.

The Green Monster is not a myth. It lives, it breathes, it sleeps, and it will eat you.

Mind over matter, will make the Pooh unfatter.

When you do the things that you can do, you will find a way.

For each one of us, there is only one thing necessary: to fulfill our own destiny, according to God’s will, to be what God wants us to be.

But, of course, it isn’t really Good-bye, because the Forest will always be there… and anybody who is Friendly with Bears can find it.

Wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.

Will is stronger than fact: it can mold and overcome fact.

There is no tragedy so utter that a Belgian, with the best will in the world, can’t make worse

We want men who will fix their eyes on the stars, but who will not forget that their feet must walk on the ground.

This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.

A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.

There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

If you will it, it is no dream; and if you do not will it, a dream it is and a dream it will stay.

Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed.

The land which the Society of Jews will have secured by international law must naturally be privately owned.The land which the Society of Jews will have secured by international law must naturally be privately owned.

Latin America neither wants, nor has any reason, to be a pawn without a will of its own; nor is it merely wishful thinking that its quest for independence and originality should become a Western aspiration.

Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.

At first, art imitates life. Then life will imitate art.Then life will find its very existence from the arts.

The world will be saved by beauty.

Paradise is hidden in each one of use, it is concealed within me too, right now, and if I wish, it will come for me in reality, tomorrow even, and for the rest of my life.

If you love all things, you will also attain the divine mystery that is in all things. For then your ability to perceive the truth will grow every day, and your mind will open itself to an all-embracing love

Since man cannot live without miracles, he will provide himself with miracles of his own making. He will believe in witchcraft and sorcery, even though he may otherwise be a heretic, an atheist, and a rebel.

To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

You got mud on your face, you big disgrace

Kicking your can all over the place, singin’

We will, we will rock you

Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it

What will I be doing in twenty years’ time? I’ll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?

I won’t be a rock star. I will be a legend

It certainly was not my intention to make you suffer, yet i have done so; obviously it never will be my intention to make you suffer, yet I shall always do so.

Do you know, darling? When you became involved with others you quite possibly stepped down a level or two, but If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.

All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred

Peace, like war, can succeed only where there is a will to enforce it, and where there is available power to enforce it.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart

This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper.

Unless the peace that follows recognizes that the whole world is one neighborhood and does justice to the whole human race, the germs of another world war will remain as a constant threat to mankind.

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves, and the only way they could do this is by not voting

So, if music is the best, what is music? Anything can be music, but it doesn’t become music until someone wills it to be music, and the audience listening to it decides to perceive it as music

The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people’s minds.

My own judgment of how the world is gonna end is that there will be a country led by a madman that will build a nuclear bomb with so much force, so much power, that it will be dropped somewhere on the face of this earth and that the earth will lose it’s jplace

I foresee the Chinese ruling the world. What are you going to do to stop it? No president of the United States will ever have enough power to stop the Chinese when they want to take over the world

They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

Let him think that I am more man than I am and I will be so.

We would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.

The refutation of suicide: is it not inelegant to abandon a world which has so willingly put itself at the service of our melancholy?

After having struggled madly to solve all problems, after having suffered on the heights of despair, in the supreme hour of revelation, you will find that the only answer, the only reality, is silence.

When every man has realized that his birth is a defeat, existence, endurable at last, will seem like the day after a surrender, like the relief and the repose of the conquered.

However much I have frequented the mystics, deep down I have always sided with the Devil; unable to equal him in power, I have tried to be worthy of him, at least, in insolence, acrimony, arbitrariness and caprice.

You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.

It is because we are all impostors that we endure each other. The man who does not consent to lie will see the earth shrink under his feet: we are biologically obliged to the false

How important can it be that I suffer and think? My presence in this world will disturb a few tranquil lives and will unsettle the unconscious and pleasant naiveté of others.

Dancing is imperatively needed to give poise to the nerves, schooling to the emotions, strength to the will, and to harmonize the feelings and the intellect with the body that supports them.

You shouldn’t act as a spokesperson for someone who’s trying to impose his will on you.

Every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer

Bite your lips, little brother…Don’t cry. Keep your anger, your hate, for another day, for later. The day will come but not now…Wait. Clench your teeth and wait…

I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.

Never explain? Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself

Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.

Never explain?your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

I get lost under these lights I get lost in the words I say Start believing my own lies Like everything will be okay

I will never make a promise that I can’t keep I promise that your smile ain’t gon’ never leave

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming

If you think you’re perfect already, then you never will be.

I will never reject an autograph, hug or photo. I was also a fan of football.