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Most people do not pray; they only beg.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

The only time it got really crazy was during 'Batman.' Anywhere I went in the world, people knew who I was. I was being offered these huge films that would have taken my career to a different level, and I decided to put on the brakes. I knew if I continued on that track, I probably wouldn't have gotten married.

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

You don't need expensive classes and all kinds of weird equipment if you really want to be in shape. There are great ways to do it that are very economical, it just takes a time commitment, even if it means waking up a half hour a day before the rest of the household gets up because that's the only time you have.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.

Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

Europe is no longer Europe, it is Eurabia, a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.

If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.

I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up.

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.