One might as well legalise sodomy as recognise the Bolsheviks.

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.

There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.

This human world of ours would be inconceivable without the practical existence of a religious belief.

Sometimes there's more important things in life than being in the ring, like family, like us, & being in love.

I've been too productive for too long, and despite what anybody wants to strip away from me, I am influential. I am.

It's important to get in the habit of growing as a human being, developing and refining leadership and management skills and entrepreneurial instincts and changing to accommodate the times.

We human beings can survive the most difficult of circumstances if we are not forced to stand alone.

Like any large organisation, public or private, the UN is a complex machine.

God isn't dead - he's just missing in action.

Once you get that instinct for the fictiveness, the fictionality of fiction, it kind of sets you free.

Even though it was the 70s, we found old stocks of clothes that had never been worn from the 50s and took them apart. I started to teach myself how to make clothes from that kind of formula.