The acts we engage in for appeasment today, we will have to remedy at far greater cost and remorse tomorrow.

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.

I love them both as though I birthed them both, but also as though I adopted them both.

Music rearranges your molecular structure.

Here's the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.

Amanda (Seyfried) has this dog that goes everywhere with her.

The male or female that the child has the most exposure to in the first four to six years of its life is the primary imprinter of the child.

The essence of your being reincarnates.

Love is a tender plant; when properly nourished, it becomes sturdy and enduring, but neglected it will soon wither and die.

If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?

Over hill and under hill

To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events.