We must build a kind of United States of Europe.

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.

I am thinking of our family's womenas faraway bulbs, their historywith crippling loss, and how I am pieced together, shell and sand, from the spine of their collective strength.

...Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of owned by the folk.

Even if it's being a Beatle for the rest of my life, it's still only a temporary thing.

Today's egg is better than tomorrow's hen.

The Bay Area is so beautiful, I hesitate to preach about heaven while I'm here.

Some people get rich studying artificial intelligence. Me, I make money studying natural stupidity.

By different methods different men excel, but where is he who can do all things well?

I'd almost say it's the worries that make married folks sacred to each other.

Having fun unleashes creativity. It is one of the seeds you plant to get ideas

What I can't do is have an intelligent conversation with [George Stephanopoulos] about a report in "The New York Times" that is unnamed, inconclusive, and based on something that isn't true.