If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.
Ronald Reagan

Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world.
Ronald Reagan

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
Mark Twain

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
Mark Twain

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
Mark Twain

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
Mark Twain

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.
Mark Twain

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.
Mark Twain

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.
Warren Buffett

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Abraham Lincoln

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Winston Churchill

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.
Winston Churchill

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.
Winston Churchill

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
C. S. Lewis

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
C. S. Lewis

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan

I've never been afraid to fail.
Michael Jordan

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
Napoleon Hill

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
Napoleon Hill

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
Napoleon Hill