Every man should ask himself each day whether he is not too readily accepting negative solutions.

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.

To me, the fashion and architecture I like are very closely linked. Both should be clean and simple and without embellishment.

What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done.

Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.

To understand Afghanistan, you have to face the stress the average Afghan deals with.

There will always be critics eager to fashion opinions for the lazy and incapable.

Everyone has a family tree; the Dawsons have one, it's a weeping willow.

Difficult folk, these women!

I like being a writer.

I lived in a world where I didn't share the love for my stepfather that my mother shared for him. She married him.