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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

I go for as much feeling as I can rather than show what I can do up and down the neck. I don't play to show people ability.

Heckling is an act of cowardice. If you want to speak, get up in front of the microphone and speak, don't sit in the dark hiding. It's easy to hide and shout and waste people's time.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.

I grew up in a house of no love or emotion - it kind of sticks with you.

Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.

I grew up in austerity in the 1940s and 1950s.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster.

Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.

On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver.

There are days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers.

Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.

I have this theory that, depending on your attitude, your life doesn't have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so many people end up living.

The "what should be" never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no "what should be," there is only what is.

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.

As long as you as an individual... can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as 'one of the faithful,' one of those people who can say, 'Well, look, something's going to happen! Let's just keep trying. Let's not give up.

Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.

Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials.

There will be a meeting of the great powers who will disagree, and the next noise we hear will be the screeching of elevators going up and down from heaven to hell.

Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

No matter what you study, the thing that you know best is what you grew up with.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun?... Or does it explode?

I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.