I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form.

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.

The shortest distance between two people is a smile.

Father, I know you will hear me, I will speak.

Fear to fear. Be afraid to be afraid. Your worst enemy is within your own bosom. Get to your knees and cry for help, and then rise up saying, 'I will trust, and not be afraid.'

I got an early education from television.

I'm doing this [running for presidency] for the people and for the movement, and we will take back this country for you and we will make America great again.

All endeavour calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil.

What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it - the fact that He knows me.

Estimates show that small businesses contribute 60-80 percent of the net new jobs annually.

Who knew three dots could make such a difference? Like everything else, a love or a wish or whatever, it was all in the way you read it.

You may know what you need, but to get what you want, better see that you keep what you have.