Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

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.

If you can't beat your computer at chess, try kickboxing.

'Useful,' and 'necessity' was always 'the tyrant's plea'.

Satisfaction with results will be the [death] knell of progress. No man is good who thinks that he cannot be better. He has no holiness who thinks that he is holy enough.

He loved her because it was his nature to do so, but there were times when he could not endure her love for him. There were times when it became nothing but pure idiot mystery.

A song stylist is, like, to take an old folk song like "Delia's Gone" and do a modern white man's version of it.

You will never see the end, if you give up in the middle

A dead end street is a good place to turn around.

There's a lot to be said for quitters. Those people who are extremely good at one thing got that way by quitting almost everything else.

Please tell me the cave just had a little indigestion. (Kat)

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards