Democracy is an awful way to run a country, but it's the best system we have.

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.

So, how close are love and genius, really? We know that they are both mentioned far more than lived.

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

What can you say when your husband says: 'You can't expect me to remember your birthday when you never look any older."

The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love and something to hope for.

And the ship sailed onward, gliding serenely down the moonlit river toward the dark lands beyond.

What I think you should do is imagine people in their underwear but then also imagine them crying, and that - that is truly relaxing.

I believe the human mind is a very fallible thing, but it's the only thing that I can really know, I guess.

There is likewise a reward for faithful silence. [Lat., Est et fideli tuta silentio merces.]

I never stood in a public house bar and alcoholic drink never touched my lips.

I don't know what I was trying to get out of a tenor - but it never really satisfied me until one day I picked up my alto and I said, 'Where have you been?' and I said right here for now on!