I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes.

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.

I don't like the dislocation of being away for months at a time. It's not conducive to having a life.

The first time I ever saw your face, I thought the sun rose in your eyes and the moon and the stars were the gifts you gave to the dark and empty sky, my love.

God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, 'Ah!

The wilderness provides an environment for a child's inner life to develop because it requires him to be constantly aware of his surroundings.

Who would come for her?" he snarled, rallying. Behind me, a voice shouted, "Tybalt, King of Cats. My claim precedes yours.

What I say is, don't go playing unless you can win. Only sit down to chess with idiots, only kick a dog what's dead already, and don't love a lady unless she loves you first.

It is very true, that the way you think creates reality for yourself.

O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend.

I know that things get worse before they get better because that’s what my psychiatrist says, but this is a worse that feels too big.

History is scraps of evidence joined by the glue of imagination.