A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest

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.

Father always said that money doesn’t grow on trees. Well, time doesn’t grow on trees either.

Business ideas are like those flying dragons in Avatar. First you have to find one, let it choose you, then be brave enough to ride it.

To lose what we never owned might seem an eccentric Bereavement but Presumption has its Affliction as actually as Claim --

A gentleman is man who can disagree without being disagreeable.

My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.

And that night we knew that to hold the body of women in our arms in neither ugly nor shameful, but the one ecstasy granted to the race of men.

Surrendering only refers to this moment, whatever "is" at this moment - to accept unconditionally and fully whatever arises at this moment.

Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, makes that and the action fine.

The Negro was taught to speak the white man's tongue, worship the white God, and accept the white man as his superior.

We humans have always needed rituals to draw like curtains over the chasms of the unknown. Without them we go mad, I think.