When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.

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.

It's always going to get better someday. Sometime in the future, things won't be so crazy.

Naomi giggled that same giggle with which Enoch had become infatuated.

To give yourself away keep yourself still, And you must live drawn by your own sweet skill.

I've got two old Volvos, two old Subarus, and an old Ford Ranger. If you've got an old car, you've gotta have at least several old cars, 'cause one's always gonna be in the garage.

I'll always try to go the safest route, but once someone strikes you or puts their hands on you then it's on, at least for me.

Of the quaking recruit, three pitched battles make a grim grenadier; and he who shrank from the muzzle of a cannon, is now ready to yield his mustache for a sponge.

Faith is an orientation of the total person, giving purpose and goal to one's hopes and strivings, thoughts and actions.

I find science really sexy and, at the time that I was a school kid, it certainly wasn't.

Our very sexual identities are artifices and illusions, the result of a lifetime of striving.

I see nothing but a world of ruins, where a kind of front line is possible only in the catacombs.