“We spent too much damn time getting down. Now it’s time to get up.”

“And the white line's getting longer and the saddle's getting cold.
I'm much too young to feel this damn old.
All my cards are on the table with no ace left in the hole,
I'm much too young to feel this damn old.”

“Success is falling down 7 times but getting up 8!”

“He drank too much when he could get it, ate too much when it was there, talked too much all the time.”

“Too much time is spent getting ready to live and making a living and not enough in living dynamically and enjoyably right now. The most important thing – and I am sure I am right – is to maintain an active, alert interest in everything going on about you.”

“She—and I—were of an age now where we spent too much time wondering how things might have gone had we made a few different choices.”

“If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.”

“Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.”

“I had forgotten to fear him, from too much time spent too close.”

“Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down.”