If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas.

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.

Each year's regrets are envelopes in which messages of hope are found for the New Year.

Independent inquiry is needed in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else's view or a mere book.

I'm training at everything. Jiu-Jitsu, wrestling, striking. Everything. I think to be in the UFC, you have to be well rounded at everything. That's the goal.

An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

One truly affectionate soul in a family will evert a sweetening and harmonizing influence upon all its members.

Mortal life is like unto the traveler on a homeward journey.

No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.

I mean, I didn't have a huge upbringing with movies, I guess.

I remember as a teen being able to eat more than my father. I was growing so fast and my body couldn’t keep up.

As a kid I learned notions of art and notions of not having any money.