The world meets nobody halfway. When you want something, you gotta take it.

I am not the richest, smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeed because I keep going and going and going.

There is an age-old proverb that really does hold true in every area of life - in relations between nations and right down to the most subtle and sophisticated or must unstable and unsophisticated relations between lovers - and it is this: they took "kindness" for "weakness."

In fact, every day I'll read a chapter of some art book. I don't know why. It's just a habit.

The church is the gym of the soul.

I guess the best thing I do of all is ride. Horsemanship, I have a natural flair for it.

To know that the odds are so high that only through the perishing of your life will the minions survive, that's love. That's heroism.