In Success you deserve it and in defeat, you need it.

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.

You remember too much," my mother said to me recently. "Why hold onto all that?" And I said, "where can I put it down?

It's unimaginable to me that I wouldn't write, but it's very imaginable that I won't write for a little while.

Eastern Washington has experienced a number of deadly forest fires this season, and it is crucial that we have bipartisan legislation that will expedite the research and restoration process.

The thing to be wished for, is not that the mountains should become easier, but that men should become wiser and stronger.

They fell, but o'er their glorious grave Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save.

Think for one minute of those who have loved you up into this day.

you can never prove God; you can only find Him!

For those who have lived on the edge of poverty all their lives, the semblance of poverty affected by the affluent is both incomprehensible and insulting.

The ultimate high: A man's abilities equaling his opinion of'em.

Love is only a small thing, enough for one person, and any suggestion that the heart might be larger than this is considered perverse.