When someone says to me, Ugh, you smoke. I reply, Ugh, you're ugly. I can quit smoking.

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 problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid.

It's a lot more fun being a critic than being the one criticized.

I play the Father/Son every year on the PGA TOUR Champions. I split it between Jackie and Gary as my playing partners.

I confess some part of me thought, If only I'd stuck around, this is the sort of catastrophe I might have created.

No estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculations than those by which a man computes the force of his own genius.

I think fate is massive, and it's never really had its place among forces we respect as having control over us.

Now, Mr. President, we don't intend to trouble you during the campaign but after you are elected, then look out for us!

I had older brothers and sisters who were high achievers, and I felt different, misunderstood by my family. That's not my family's fault; it was my perception.