My mother made a brilliant impression upon my childhood life. She shone for me like the evening star.

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.

A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the occasional bar fight.

Dreams do come true, but first you must dream.

I'd like to be remembered for being a good-hearted soul that left this planet better than I found it.

Eloquence is the child of knowledge. When a mind is full, like a wholesome river, it is also clear.

America's military is the best in the world, but this president [Barack Obama] is hollowing out our military. We need a commander in chief that believes in American exceptionalism again.

I believe nothing of my own that I have ever written.

Anger is inside you, revealed by an outside source.

Be mindful of intention. Intention is the seed that creates our future.

For me books have always been an incredibly solid part of my life, both as escapism and simply as resource.

The book [Manufacturing Consent] itself is then devoted to a series of case studies, selected, we hope [with Edward Herman], to offer a fair and in fact rather severe test of those conclusions.