An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

If we stretch ourselves to open our minds, to see our shared humanity with others, we allow ourselves to see the existence of community and generosity in unexpected places.

I'm all right, " I told her. This is a lie, when you're twelve. And all the other years, too.

They say that cats are the only animal that can sit in your lap and ignore you. To which I say: you've never been to the Spearmint Rhino.

Those who have happy homes seldom turn out badly.

Metaphysics must be based on what exists, for it has the task of explicating it.

We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

That is what I like; that is what a young man ought to be. Whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them should know no moderation, and leave him no sense of fatigue.

There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.

The momentum now is inevitable. Now it's about each of us individually arranging the furniture of our own mind to deal with what has become inevitable.

A natural-born photographer, with hypo in my blood.