If we open a quarrel between the past and the present we shall find we have lost the future.

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 government played by the same rules as the rest of us, it would cease to be government.

Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.

The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.

To be at ease is better than to be at business.

Not every child is cut out for an individual sport.

Love so that you may actually be what you innately are.

I read less of everything now. With only fond memories of others' work, it will be interesting to give my own journal writing a try now.

If you always look forward, will you go straight? In order to do so, you have to look to your sides and rear and check the traffic signs. And you have to ask for directions from other people.

What are you doing here?! (Aimee) Come to inadvertently insult you some more apparently. Who knew? (Fang)

Children born today have a fifty-fifty chance of living to 100.