Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.

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.

Even though their marriage had been dead for over two years (her words, not mine), this put her in the role of the innocent. She was now a woman scorned. ~Shattered Reality

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes but few have the gift of penetration.

The overwhelming number of teachers ...are unable to name or describe a theory of learning that underlies what they do.

In Mexico, everything on the menu is the same dish. The only difference is the way it's folded.

Survival is nothing more than recovery.

I prefer the sorts of words that go their own way and are very choosy about where they end up. They don't fall for the first frillily syllabled thing to come along.

Technology is best when it brings people together.

The public is mad, frustrated, but what the public wants is progress.

Anyone who thinks that the last 80 years, ever since FDR took us off gold, have been a doomed venture, that strikes me as kind of cranky.

When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.