Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea. Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink 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.

I want to tie one thousand balloons around my neckand float upwhile slowly dying of happiness.

Too often fear is fiction madly running amuck, all the while madly tracking ‘muck’ across the floor of fact.

He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.

Perhaps the magic would last, perhaps it wouldn't. But then again, what does?

The way we think, define the way we act.

Why do we people in churches seem like cheerful, brainless tourists on a packaged tour of the Absolute?

No, Lord Maccon was riproaring, tumble down, without a doubt, pickled beyond the gherkin.

I used to work in a hospital, in a laboratory doing phlebotomy. I was a vampire.

He (Dave Brower) is an emotionalist in an age of dangerous reason.

A cosmology that admits of only one male god limits women’s capacity to envision their full potential as human beings.