Do you know why the nose of the bull dog is sloped backwards? So it can keep on breathing without ever letting go.

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.

No one can steal your freedom from you. You can only give it away.

Childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul.

I believe in supremacy of God.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

I make bean stalks, I'm A builder, like yourself.

Our food and our rest, our trades and our labors, are to be attended to, and all the offices of humanity performed in obedience to the will of God, for the glory of Christ.

I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.

Sometimes a man has to cry. Even if he is a man.

The development of beings with minds is probably the highest individuation the world has ever known, and its prehistory is the history of life on earth.

We clasp the hands of those who go before us.