Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

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.

It is kind of ridiculous that a poet is expected to live in the real world.

And though he had almost flunked in Greek, his thesis on 'Sixteen Ways of Paying a Church Debt' had won the ten-dollar prize in Practical Theology.

I never really read Allen Ginsberg poetry, even though I have a book he gave me.

I don't know, maybe I'm immature, but I still find it funny if I dump cold water on my girlfriend when she's in the shower.

I think that's my approach: If it feels right for a scene to be whole, to hold on without cutting for a long time, then that's great. But other scenes, they don't want it.

The market economy is very good at wealth creation but not perfect at all about wealth distribution.

Writing is a consequence of having been 'haunted' by material. Why this is, no one knows.

Sometimes there is no way to hold your life together. Sometimes things just have to fall apart.

There are chemists who spend their whole lives trying to find out what's in a lump of sugar. I want to know one thing. What is color?

What inspires me is when I see something and I say, "I can do that too!"