Let us move forward with strong and active faith.
Our security is not a matter of weapons alone. The arm that wields them must be strong, the eye that guides them clear, the will that directs them indomitable.
Our government is based on the belief that a people can be both strong and free, that civilized men need no restraint but that imposed by themselves against abuse of freedom.
I answer one of your letters, then lie in bed in apparent calm, but my heart beats through my entire body and is conscious only of you. I belong to you; there is really no other way of expressing it, and that is not strong enough.
One can disintegrate the world by means of very strong light. For weak eyes the world becomes solid, for still weaker eyes it seems to develop fists, for eyes weaker still it becomes shamefaced and smashes anyone who dares to gaze upon it.
When I was a boy I used to think that STRONG meant having big muscles, great physical power; but the longer I live, the more I realize that real strength has much more to do with what is NOT seen. Real strength has to do with helping others.
You can survive on your own; you can grow strong on your own; you can prevail on your own; but you cannot become human on your own.
A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.
I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.
I hate you most because you attract, but are not strong enough to pull me to you.
One must need to be strong, otherwise one will never become strong.
The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it.
Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
A high civilization is a pyramid: it can stand only on a broad base; its primary prerequisite is a strong and soundly consolidated mediocrity.
Strong currents drag many stones and bushes along with them, strong intellects many dense and muddled minds.
A person must have a good memory to keep the promises he has made. A person must have a strong imagination to be able to have pity. So closely is morality tied to the quality of the intellect.
Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong.
The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual and he does not call it poison.
Danger alone acquaints us with our own resources, our virtues, our armor and weapons, our spirit, and forces us to be strong.