We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.
Reasoned arguments and suggestions which make allowance for the full difficulties of the state of war that exists may help, and will always be listened to with respect and sympathy.
The thing about boxers is that there's respect there. You beat me, and I may not like it, but you know what, deep down inside, I respect you. And that's the code of honor.
There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
I have no doubt that Brian May would have had a brilliant career in science had he completed his Ph.D. in 1971.
Whatever science and philosophy may do for mankind, the world can never outgrow its need of the simplicity that is in Christ.
When I get into a bad mood, I do sports and then everything's OK. And then I go and make decisions, however painful they may be.
Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.
Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim.
From these inconsiderable attempts, some idea may be formed with what success, should Fortune afford an opportunity, I am likely to treat matters of greater importance.
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.
The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist.
As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.
The man I love may decide tomorrow that he loves me no more - but if my heart remains open, I will endure the storm.
What cultural DNA remains from those first Puritan forays onto American soil may be our love of a fresh start.
Divorce can be crazy. Man, if you're happy... Love is a beast, man. Hold on. Be prepared for any way it may go, and be honest.
Engineering producers who don't play and have technology as a background may be the reason why there's a lot of cold non-musical music, for lack of a better description.
'Climb Every Mountain' is a beautiful statement of philosophy. Critics may think 'The Sound of Music' is saccharine, but I think it's profound. The message, that we can't accommodate evil, is just as important today.
I'm not really a big Springsteen guy. I'll listen to the music, but ... I didn't really get attached to it as much as, like, country artists. That's really who I listen to.
In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning.
