No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.

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.

If we choose to turn left when God wants us to go right, we cannot expect God to support the plans we made on our own.

For those who wander in the depths, there is nothing deep!

A person's value is attached to a variable exponent.

The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it.

But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.

Truth is a flower in whose neighbourhood others must wither.

As you go into the light, you will gain a more profound happiness. That happiness will free you from the desire-aversion cycle.

I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people.

If I'm a lush at anything, it's food and drink. I'm not materialistic in any way, but I value food.

In the gospel of Jesus, sincere and costly discipleship always accompanies genuine conversion. The gospel of Jesus teaches men that a mere profession of faith alone is no sound evidence of salvation.