One cannot leap a chasm in two jumps.

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.

Even the suicide desires his own good: he wrongly imagines that he would be better off dead. The moral problem is not that we love ourselves but that we love ourselves the wrong way.

Health and disease are the same thing—vital action intended to preserve, maintain, and protect the body. There is no more reason for treating disease than there is for treating health.

There is nothing as sincere as a mother's kiss.

I think the real free person in society is one that's disciplined. It's the one that can choose; that is the free one.

A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.

Every president since George Washington has taken executive privilege seriously. Every Republican president has.

Reaction is what changes your understanding of the world.

I'm no different than you.

Whoever raises a righteous child, it is as if he did not die.

Fitness if like the blade of a knife; you want to sharpen it without ruining the blade.