If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.

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.

Popularity gives you power only over people who care about being popular. Ostracism gives you power only over those who fear being ostracized.

Every setback is an opportunity to grow.

You've been away a long time. Were you lost?' He sounds lost himself, half strangled and fighting to stay conscious.'Wounded, not lost, ' I tell him, but I do feel lost.

its not bad to be different. Sometimes it's the mark of being very very talented.

Lights get low and that's when I have my brightest ideas.

When Harvard men say they have graduated from Radcliffe, then we've made it.

Hazard not your wealth on a poor man's advice.

Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It's not easy even to get a rural story made.

Bodybuilding has been my life; if it weren't for bodybuilding, I don't know what I'd be doing. I look at bodybuilding as who I am.

The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate.