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

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.

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.

If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.

God gave us imaginations because that’s one of the ways we can visit the future! Thoughts are transport media!

If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher.

Your performance gets you promoted. It doesn't matter if you're brown, back or white.

There's a lot of people I'd like to write with, like Keith Urban or even as far out as Stevie Wonder.

In his own time and in his own way, the Lord will bring about his miracles.

Anyone who believes that men are the equal of women has never seen a man trying to wrap a Christmas present.

And step by step You'll lead me / And I will follow You all of my days.

But contrary to what some people seem to think, I was never a bully. I was just a hard man.

The dream God gives you guarantees, no matter what it looks like now, when it’s all over, your dream will come to pass.

I connect the psychedelic dimension to the dimension of inspiration and dream.