When I get to heaven I mean to spend a considerable portion of my first million years in painting, and so get to the bottom of the subject.

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.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

There are kinds of solitude that provide a respite from loneliness, a holiday if not a cure.

Oh, darling, you know we writers must occasionally stretch a point to heighten the dramatic situation.

The growth of purposeful travel is a good thing. It can have a positive impact. We should continue to experiment and move along this line.

By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?

To be a hero means being the author of your own myth.

I think what I've actually achieved as a manager does sometimes get a bit overlooked, because all people think about is the media side of things. They tend to forget I've not done so bad.

Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.

This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.