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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

I really believe the only way to stay healthy is to eat properly, get your rest and exercise. If you don't exercise and do the other two, I still don't think it's going to help you that much.

Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

The only time a wife listens to her husband is when he's asleep.

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

I'm going to work so that it's a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.