In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

There was beauty in chaos, she'd just never known it before.

Someone will complete you some day and that day will never be late. Those nouns and verbs are above wonderful and never ending .

It's just that life felt the right size in there... not too big and not too small. Wasn't so hard to work up a bit of courage. It's got so bloody complicated since then.

A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don't have to be nice anymore.

Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.

There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.

I just wanted to be an athlete.