The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.

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 Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

Subtract out the impact and the fall is all you get. So here's two beers to remember why and three more to forget.

Had Calhoun been advised by me, he would have been the most popular man in the United States.

The laissez-faire argument relies on the same tacit appeal to perfection as does communism.

In my opinion, New York City police officers are brave.

You get crushes on people. You have to see them every day in that week. They're a fantastic person, and it could be a man or a woman.

I don't know what it's going to take for people to really wake up and understand that they [the Bush administration] are liars and they are murderers.

Shakespeare alternated between musical surrenders to social prestige and magnificent fits of poetic remorse.

All things move on, good and bad. Never get too high or too low.

I try to tell people to keep having hope. It's always what you don't know and don't expect that's gonna be so great.