To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.