You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure.

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.

There were two girls in a room. They were reading a book… Look again, and the room is empty. The end of the story will have to wait.

Well, everybody does it that way, Huck.""Tom, I am not everybody.

Communism everywhere has paid the price of rigidity and dogmatism. Freedom has the strength of compassion and flexibility. It has, above all, the strength of intellectual honesty.

I'm not a birthday person. Maybe because I don't like to build expectations around that one day. You never know how it'll turn out to be.

We recruit for attitude and train for skill.

Putting on a new pair of glasses or sunglasses is a simple way to completely transform your look - just like a new hairstyle.

one of the advantages of cycling is that it automatically prevents a journey from becoming an Expedition.

The child builds his inmost self out of the deeply held impressions he receives.

John Wayne never wore Lycra.

If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you're fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you're reading a whole new book.