I have found in my experience of war, that plans are useless, but planning is invaluable.

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 pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase

Few suffer more than those who refuse to forgive themselves.

Oh, I forgot to mention it: My brother is the kind of man whom women stalk. In cooperative packs.

The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band

Clary?” Jace tilted his head to the side, studying her face. “You do—you still love me, don’t you?” “I love Jace Lightwood,” she said. “I don’t know who you are.

The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.

That's part of our policy, is not to be taken seriously because I think our opposition, whoever they may be in all their manifest forms, don't know how to handle humour.

Near the point of impact, time acelerates to the speed of light.

The tiny, initial clue ... by allowing us to imagine what we do not know, stimulates a desire for knowledge.

Sustainability has become an ornament.