Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.

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.

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.

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

The experience of history exalts and enlarges the horizon of our intellectual view.

Put your hand inside the hat, search with your fingers. He is the light wrapped inside the darkness. That’s the wonder of Rabbit. We think he’s not in the hat. But he is.

To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship.

All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever more people.

For a man to know what he has when he had it, that is what makes him a fortunate man.

The expansion of your own consciousness, love capacity, humility and compassion - this is the path; this is the way.

The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk.

England have the best fans in the world and Scotlands fans are second to none

All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed.

Whatever you put attention on will start manifesting in your life. Intention, attention, manifestation; that is how the universe works.