You may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together- what do you get? The sum of their fears.

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.

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.

All those football coaches who hold dressing-room prayers before a game should be forced to attend church once a week.

There may be aliens in our Milky Way galaxy, and there are billions of other galaxies. The probability is almost certain that there is life somewhere in space.

I felt I had dissolved into a pure energy state and become one with the magnetic field surrounding the earth

I knew that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the US. It took three years to get the accent right.

Poetry is priceless.... a way of keeping yourself feeling rich and civilized even when you're quite poor.

We live with a future where every three or four months, we have to question everything. You think you could be the best, or that you're nothing and you don't know what you're doing. It is exhausting.

In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings.

I have scored against every team, every country, every defender in the world.

The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves.