With opportunity comes responsibility.

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.

Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!

A moment after the fairy's entrance the window was blown open by the breathing of the little stars, and Peter dropped in.

It's no secret that I love to talk, but the real secret is I love to listen, too.

My father and I did work for a while at the flea market and there really are rows of Afghans working there, some of whom I am related to.

The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.

I come from a very warm island, where colors are very important, very vibrant, and obviously the color has been an influence on my work.

At some point you must decide if you want to succeed or just be someone who was never to blame for anything going wrong.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Positive thinking doesn't guarantee results, all it offers is something better than negative thinking.

Specifically for black women, our images and our bodies in the media and in history have been so hypersexualized.