I learned two basic lessons on Everest. First, just because something has worked in the past does not mean it will work today. Second, different challenges require different mindsets.
When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.
The first two Prime Ministers whom I served, Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher drew strikingly different lessons from the Second World War.
So one important lesson of Vietnam is, the first casualty of an unwise and unjust war are the American troops called on to fight it. Their service should be honored.
I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done.
He that doesn't know his bed is too hard sleeps well.
Only the man who is not hungry says the coconut has a hard shell.
It's easy to throw something into the river but hard to get it out again.
When a twig grows hard it is difficult to twist it. Every beginning is weak.
The hard road turns the traveller into the same dust that he has to swallow.
No matter how hard you try the bull will never give milk.
There were many ways to lie without saying something that wasn't true. I was learning that the hard way.
Michael had learned the hard way that nothing good came from interfering in the affairs of the afterlife.
Obsession is hard work and can only be performed at full speed for short periods of time.
Hope may have a positive reputation, but it has a vicious downside. If you have hope, you can be crushed.
Stealing isn't so easy, often it's hard work, otherwise we'd all be doing it.
If I'm working this hard in the morning, I'd prefer it be because my man has woken me up with an eight-inch nudge.
It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
If you look hard at it, if you look hard at the bleeding heart attitude to always throw money at issues, throw money at problems, what you're in fact probably saying is you're exercising a prejudicism of low expectations.
I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.
It's hard to come into a new relationship with food unless you're engaged in an interactive way at an early age; it's hard to change your values.
