It has not fallen to your lot to command great armies. You had to create them, organize them and inspire them.

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.

The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.

You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.

Man makes holy what he believes as he makes beautiful what he loves.

God gave me a talent to draw. I 'owed' it to him to develop the talent.

Words themselves become beings, sentences becomenatural vegetation to be guided by the gardener's hands.

Feminism has never been sexy, but let me assure you that it never stopped me from flirting, and I have seldom suffered from lack of men.

I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.

My grandmother lives with my mother in a gorgeous house in the San Fernando Valley. I am afforded these luxuries, and I'm very young.

As the son of a director, I really believe an actor's place is just to shut-up and do what you're told to some agree.

It's a full moon here tonight, which makes me think of you. Because, I know that no matter what I am doing or where I am, this moon will always be the same size as yours, half a world away.