Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.

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.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

People ultimately get what they deserve on TV. What people end up watching is what the advertising end up glomming onto and promoting.

I hate restaurants that play music. You come out for a quiet meal, and you're supposed to put up with all this booming. Why? It's madness!

In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not.

In an abusive relationship - we'll talk about men and women - women are often restrained, by words or out of fear, from leaving. They will tolerate abuse up to and including being put to death.

People may believe correct things for the damndest and weirdest of wrong reasons.

I wondered – would a bullet through my temple actually kill me or just leave a really big mess for me to clean up?

Rich people take advice from people who are richer than they are. Poor people take advice from their friends, who are just as broke as they are.

The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.

Playing music in the wake of the Blink thing was like finding love in the middle of a war zone.