Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party

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.

When you are in his sort of business - now my business - you are not defined by who you are but who you are not.

The more we reduce the size of our world the more we shall be its master.

The first and absolute requirement of strategic air power in this war was control of the air in order to carry out sustained operations without prohibitive losses.

The more I take care of myself, the more prosperous I am.

We drank a toast to innocence, we drank a toast to now. And tried to reach beyond the emptiness, but neither one knew how.

You have to understand the purpose of life. The purpose of life is to do something which will live forever.

The only thing that has ever consumed me is love from time to time. Feeling like, 'What is it? How do I get it?'

You sleep with a man, that's your husband. So make sure before you lay down, you love him.

I'm my own "ideal reader" in the sense that I write novels that I would want to read.

In those days, male dancers were a rarer breed than women. as they are still today, A good male dancer, one as strong as we were, was very difficult to come by if you couldn't afford to pay them.