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

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.

Incarnation is good news not because it offers us a way out of the mess of this world, but because it shows us what God's love looks like here and now.

Names have power. In certain cultures, just speaking a man's name gives you mastery over him.

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

The Founders didn't mention political parties when they wrote the Constitution, and George Washington in essence warned us against them in his Farewell Address.

The soul conceives, the mind creates, the body experiences. The circle is complete.

I love all things Queen - their songs are epic storytelling.

Lower your standards and relax as it is.

I believe that we haven't begun to understand the many forces that bind the physical world, any more than we understand our own minds and what they're capable of.

You're the artist - you make the music that you want to make.

Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old.