resilience Quotes

The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

When liberty returns, I will return.

Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

Courage is grace under pressure.

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Man is not made for defeat.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

Certainly it is valuable to a trained writer to crash in an aircraft which burns. He learns several important things very quickly. Whether they will be of use to him is conditioned by survival. Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer.