I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

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 i can't be your true love, i want to be your worst nightmare.

One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

Epicurus recommends bread and cheese as the staple, and his emphasis is more on avoiding pain than on seeking pleasure, insofar as pleasure-seeking tends to be followed by painful after-effects.

I think noogies can be effective if done at the right time and place.

I'm trying to be more of a gentleman.

Rather than strive to 'lose weight,' most people would be better off striving to lose only fat and to build or maintain muscle.

I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.

We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little; many services but few conversions; much machinery but few results.

My husband is almost as heavy as I am. We were married in adjoining churches.