Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

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.

Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.

A nation that forgets its past has no future.

If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.

One thinks of the failure of representation since 9/11, the proliferation of novels, the media glut, the surfeit of images that somehow slide too easily into a banal repertoire, commodified shock.

be good to yourselfyou're the only youyou'll ever get

Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come.

One's strongest asset is simultaneously his point of strongest vulnerability.

When we look at life from the top of the mountain, there is no limitation

You have to have a lot more dedication to what I'll call 'the machine,' ... I have 20 percent dedication. What's needed is 110 percent. You can't have it with the level of apathy I have.

There's nothing wrong with being a genius who can fascinate the young. Rather, there's something wrong with the young who can't be fascinated by a genius.

That larger vision is certain to make clear the value in our own lives of service to others.

The critic roams through culture, looking for prey.

I dig my father. I wish he could open his eyes and dig me.