Great success always comes at the risk of enormous failure.

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.

If you choose not to live self-responsibly, you count on others to make up your default. No one abjures self-responsibility on a desert island.

Don't just discover . . . Encounter!

It is good to pray even if you do not believe in God.

When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily manipulate that in different ways. It is what it is.

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

Be heroes in an army of construction.

When illness enters a home, not only does it take hold of a body. It also weaves a dark web between hearts, a web where hope is trapped.

The moral pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in the intelligent gratification of consciousness.

Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.