Lobbyists are the touts of protected industries.

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.

Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.

You call me at 12am or 3am I will pick up your call. Once I make a commitment, I don't go back!

It's always good to show that poetry isn't the little depressed lyric people believe it to be, that it's something bigger.

The environment is so fundamental to our continued existence that it must transcend politics and become a central value of all members of society.

The fruit of keeping covenants is the companionship of the Holy Ghost and an increase in the power to love.

I’ve been thinking,” he said. “Which is not an easy thing for a teacher to admit to.

If you don't kick things around with people, you are out of it. Nobody, I always say, can be anybody without somebody being around.

The Great Commission to go into all the world is not only geographical, but must include every field, profession, discipline, sport, etc.

And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind.

Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.