If you want to discover new oceans, you must first have the courage to leave shore.

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.

Dating is no charge prostitution.

In retrospect, perhaps the biggest reason my mother was cared for but not helped for twenty years was the simplest: Her functioning was not that necessary to the world.

God is calling you to change the world one life at a time and one small step at a time. Begin today where you are.

Latin men are the most passionate men in the world - they may not be the most aggressive, but they are very passionate, very romantic.

Survival is not so much about the body, but rather it is about the triumph of the human spirit.

If you have sense enough to realize why flies gather around a restaurant, you should be able to appreciate why men run for office.

Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.

There isn’t an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why?

If I get to the point where I don't like my clothes, I'm in big trouble.

I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It's very character-building.