The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.  

People in democratic nations seem adopt a laidback attitude after voting.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

Glory and reflected glory are best manifested between the Sun and the Moon.

When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

Indeed, we're strongest when the face of America isn't only a soldier carrying a gun but also a diplomat negotiating peace, a Peace Corps volunteer bringing clean water to a village, or a relief worker stepping off a cargo plane as floodwaters rise.

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.