The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.

I am climbing a difficult road but the glory gives me strength.

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass glory in the flower. We will grieve not rather find strength in what remains behind.

The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that it is now protected by the sanctity of age and the glory of tradition. A strong religious feeling mingles with the respect and the devotion to the fatherland.

By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

Basically fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger more beautiful more powerful. This is power it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside it's a painful difficult search within.