We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations

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 only sharks I’m afraid of are the ones that wear three-piece suits and write memos.

Sabism is deabstraction, metacolorism, thematism, exotic, convalescent substrate, soft act, collectivism, pluralization, sensationalism, pluralart, thematic colourism, reabstraction.

I was lucky that I had friends who have maintained a very regular attitude with me and haven't changed how they interact with me.

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

"But to be hanged - is that not unendurable?" Even so, when a man feels that it is reasonable, he goes off and hangs himself.

Sometimes when people say things, we should actually believe what they say.

The dilemma for women - writing after everything else was finished - has prevented women from reaching their literary potential for centuries.

I wanted to communicate what I had seen, so that others could see it.

As great enmities spring from great friendships, and mortal distempers from vigorous health, so do the most surprising and the wildest frenzies from the high and lively agitations of our souls.

Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.