"I hope, sir, that I will shoot your picture on your hundredth birthday." I don't see why not, young man. You look reasonably fit and healthy.

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.

Mere hope isn't enough to change destiny. One must act.

Life is never ordinary, it is always a wonder, it is always magical.

Graduating from the School of Hard Knocks doesn't always get you to Fort Knox.

One doesn't have an agreement to that effect written down on parchment and sealed; but it is as well understood and ought to be as faithfully kept as any legal contract.

I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.

If free men refused to look at dead bodies then brave men will have died in vain.

Defending birthright citizenship is about being on the right side of liberty. The 14th Amendment is a great legacy of the Republican Party.

I've always been good at putting things behind me–I fall apart, do my crying bit, and then put it away and move on.

I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.