Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.

The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.

Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.

There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.

A nation that forgets its past has no future.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

There are white n*ggers. I've seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time.

We are in the entertaining business, they want to get autographs, they want to take something home, whether it's a signed hat or, you know, program or whatever it might be.

The one thing I never want to do is act drunk or act high. You don’t do it from a mental kind of place because then you’re just acting.

There are so many to pick from that any list that I give you will be inadequate.

Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said, the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, everything superfluous runs over as from a full vessel.

So when you make an impression in a certain kind of role, that tends to be the type of role that you get offered.

I would much rather be found guilty of making a serious mistake in judgment, than to be accused of being even a little bit insincere.

I now understand what Christ suffered in Gethsemane as well as any man living.

Hour after hour, they shouted at me, accused me, insulted me and members of my family.