We (The British) have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.

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.

Time is the mercy of Eternity without Time's swiftness/ Which is the swiftest of all things: all were eternal torment.

If perception is limited by experience, knowledge, and/or education, what deems my actions “correct” or my thoughts as moral?

The whole purpose of propaganda is to make the obvious seem obscure, or offensive

I am an atheist, a rationalist and a humanist.

That unthinkable, adult truth: that need is not transitive, that one may need without oneself being needed.

My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily.

Jazz speaks for life. This is triumphant music.

my love had grown one with my soul; it became darker, but did not go out

I am really unable to talk about my life - I don't know my life. I've travelled a lot and this is the life that I have lived, but that doesn't mean that I know myself.

There is someone who looks after us from behind the curtain. In truth we are not here, this is our shadow.