The most beautiful voice in the world is that of an educated Southern woman.

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.

Begin to think.

Resolve to be thyself and know that who finds himself loses his misery.

Fires of suffering and strife are raging around the world.

With the Supremes I made so much money so fast all I wanted to do was buy clothes and pretty things. Now I'm comfortable with money and it's comfortable with me.

Sometimes before people know what they're saying, they already love the language.

It was literally like the video game!

I'm putting my emotion out on stage so people can actually feel me. If you feel somebody's art and you see them perform it and they aren't feeling it, that's one of the first things in the game.

I yearn for things, but at the same time I am just peaceful.

After something crystallizes, I can write ferociously and write novels in six months, which in the past would have taken me two years.

In Europe, people in the arts are considered part of the intelligentsia; they are considered part of the elite