The world, nature, human beings, do not move like machines. The edges are never clear-cut, but always frayed. Nature never draws a line without smudging it.

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 difference in our potential as angels or demons is the effect of time on the decisions we make.

I denounce the do-gooders, the feel-gooders, the “activist clubs, ” and anyone else who makes people feel like the problem is being taken care of. Trust me. The problem is not being taken care of.

Wherever God has given faith, it is given, among other reasons, for the very purpose of being tried.

I hate the word 'potential'-potential means you haven't gotten it done.

Do not take someone's silence as his pride, perhaps he is busy fighting with his self.

I want to save lives, including my own, but Cambodians believe we just rent this body. It is just a house for the spirit, and if the house is full of termites, it is time to leave.

I do have friends in Australia who now refer to me as 'Hollywood Jack.'

We know it well that none of us acting alone can achieve success.

Within us lies the peace, the beauty, the glory of our being. There is an ocean of all that. We cannot seek it outside, we have to go within.

Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching.