The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

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.

He had understood long ago that the past was no better than the present. That was as plain as day. One had to try to escape, to wrestle free from every era, so as not to be devoured by it.

I admit that at times my prayer for my children is nothing more than vocalized unbelief aimed at God.

We would do what we must. The world is big. Surely there is a space in it for one like you and one like me.

If you can afford...a computer, you can afford to pay $16 for my...CD.

The best pitchers have a short term memory and a bullet proof confidence.

Let them fear bondage who are slaves to fear; the sweetest freedom is an honest heart.

Most of the time a spark of beauty or truth will start a fire of a song but fires rarely produce goodness on their own ... you need to control them and put them to work.

you grab at any sign of hope. You grab it with both hands and breathe life into it, day after day. You do anything to keep it alive.

Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire; or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.

President Bush has said that the economy is growing, that there are jobs out there. But you know, it's a long commute to China to get those jobs.