“When you are walking up a mountain to attempt something that nobody’s ever tried before, and you pass people bringing corpses down, it becomes very clear that if you get it wrong, the consequences could be fatal.”

“Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?”

“You ever laughed so hard
nobody in the world could hurt you for a minute,
no matter what they tried to do to you?”

“My goal is always again to bring people together. But if I'm forced to fight for something I really care about, I will never, ever back down and our country will never, ever back down. Thank you. I've fought for my family. I've fought for my business. I've fought for my employees. And now, I'm going to fight for you, the American people like nobody has ever fought before.”

“I'm not the man to say that failure's sweet,
Nor tell a chap to laugh when things go wrong;
I know it hurts to have to take defeat
An' no one likes to lose before a throng;
It isn't very pleasant not to win
When you have done the very best you could;
But if you're down, get up an' buckle in—
A lickin' often does a fellow good.”

“Nobody got murdered before lunch. But nobody. People weren't up to it. You needed a good lunch to get both the blood-sugar and blood-lust levels up.”

“It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.”

“Maybe nobody loved you when you were young
Maybe, boy, when you cry nobody ever comes
Will you try it once?
Give up the machine gun”

“To me, failure is not fatal unless you quit; getting knocked down is not embarrassing unless you allow it to keep you down.”

“…I realized that once people are broken in certain ways they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one.”