Listing your personal milestones is like storing a pocketful of sunshine for a rainy day. Sometimes our best is simply not enough.... We have to do what is required.

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 darkness that follows a sunset is never so dark that it can change the inevitability of a sunrise.

I'm going to move on, while carrying these feelings with me.

The author says the pastor who does not pray is a "mere official" who gets into his office by the necessity of the bread it provides.

Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography.

The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.

Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed.

Today, unfortunately, the right to vote seems to have become a partisan issue. Democrats seek to guarantee and expand voting rights. Republicans try to undermine and suppress voting rights.

We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game. And there is as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and others

The body does whatever it wants. I am not my body; I am my mind.

This world is rotten. The rotten should die.