I always like to learn, but I don't always like to be taught.

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.

Art always penetrates the particular fissures in one's psychic life.

Does anyone ever cry and you know you've been hurt.You know you should feel an achy feeling in your heart, but you feel nothing. You just cry, and can't stop?

The outfits come and go but there is a constant that I like about the catwalk model: the snotty expression.

The New York Times published the guest list on the front page. The masks were a brilliant concept.

But all the money in the world cannot make you happy either, so there has to be a balance.

Actions are remembered long after words are forgotten.

Real freedom will come when U.S. soldiers in Iraq turn their guns on their superiors.

Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.

You cannot simply discard God like a box that has been emptied.

I find in old age that it's possible to revisit the past, the one requirement being that you come as you are.