The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

There is also this benefit in brag: that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.

A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.

How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it.

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.