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People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.

Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.

The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.

Only do what your heart tells you.

To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

You can't relate to a superhero, to a superman, but you can identify with a real man who in times of crisis draws forth some extraordinary quality from within himself and triumphs but only after a struggle.

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.

There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.

It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.

The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men.

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.