There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away.

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.

Keep trying is success and giving up is failure.

He deserves paradise who makes his companions laugh.

And trade is art, and art's philosophy, In Paris.

I put everything I can into a record. That's what art is for. I take a risk every time I do one with my whole being.

It has often been said there’s so much to be read, you never can cram all those words in your head.

Poetry is to a painting what life is to man.

When you're quite young, your imagination's quite free.

To see the ocean once is to learn how to miss it. ~Mistress Coyle

To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad.

We can support our troops without supporting our president.