Meet success like a gentleman; disaster like a man.

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.

He gives me the stare that only men can do. The mouth tightening exasperation stare.

Worship is an inward reverence, the bowing down of the soul in the presence of God.

Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime.

I wanted to be less well-known in comedy.

Every one of us ... knows better than he practices, and recognizes a better law than he obeys.

I have a man and a woman in the same body; I have the male and female values in the same body.

Incivility is not a Vice of the Soul, but the effect of several Vices; of Vanity, Ignorance of Duty, Laziness, Stupidity, Distraction, Contempt of others, and Jealousy.

To hell with facts! We need stories.

The body they may kill: God’s truth abideth still, His Kingdom is forever.

... one doesn't really profit from experience; one merely learns to predict the next mistake.