If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Kissing you is terrifying, breathing your same air makes my knees weak, when I’m around you it’s a tie between wanting to chase you down – or just kiss you until you can’t breathe.

We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters.

How do you define a poet? It's very simple. Anyone declaring that he is a poet, is a poet.

There are no judgments so harsh as those of the erring, the inexperienced, and the young.

The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow - by the tilt of the social landscape.

What does it say about our country when people are so desperate for an alternative to our one-party state masquerading as a two-party state that they'll even elect a professional wrestler governor?

Government can screw up just about everything. Given enough power and time it will screw up everything.

A moment of eloquence enthralls us. An hour's worth leaves us stupefied.

Regarding drugs: just the existence of drugs seems troubling to me.

I know a place where the wild thyme blows, where oxlips and the nodding violet grows.