If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.

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 rest of it - and perhaps the best of it - is a permission slip: you can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will.

People don't realise that to be free means to be firmly attached to a system, that discipline is the road to a higher freedom.

One HELLO? can change a life.One HELLO? can save a life.

empty whiskey bottles strewn about like forgotten failures

To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.

A relationship has to be cultivated. There have to be feelings of love for another first. But then you have to really like the person.

A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.

If you are young child and you've lost mother and dad to AIDS and rich nations sit on the sidelines not caring, you will become a frustrated person and a hopeless person.

Ric Flair, the Slim Whitman of Pro-Wrestling.

She thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for the sake of goodness.