Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

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.

The words hurt my throat a little – probably because I was swallowing my pride, and it didn’t taste so great.

It's amazing, it doesn't feel like it has been 10 years since retirement.

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

If we must live with a perpetual sense that the world and the men in it are greater than we and too much for us, let it be the measure of our virtue that we know this and seek no comfort.

I think being able to speak different languages, and being able to act in those languages is something that's really very rewarding.

I'm a mischievous drunk.

Our vices are the excesses of our virtues.

Neither facts nor pictures seem to sink into our centers of feeling any more.

It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by.

We try not to talk much about mental fatigue.