Alphabet Quotes

It is astonishing what an effort

it seems to be for many people

to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science

gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Investing is laying out money

now to get more money back in the future.

The key to immortality is

first living a life worth remembering.

Education is a weapon whose effect depends on

who holds it in his hands.

Between stimulus and response there is a space.

In that space is our power to choose our response.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

Love God and do what you will.

It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.

You’re never too old to be childish.

I don't think you ever stop giving,

I really don't,

I think it's an on,

going process,

And it's not just about,

being able to write a check,

It's being able to touch somebody's life.

Far better is it to dare mighty things,

to win glorious triumphs,

even though checkered by failure...

than to rank with those poor spirits

who neither enjoy nor suffer much,

because they live in a gray twilight

that knows not victory nor defeat.

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.

Life is like a sewer…

what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.

The point is that you can’t be too greedy.

No president who performs his duties faithfully

and conscientiously can have any leisure.

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness

of the woods before sunrise.

Day 2 is stasis.

Followed by irrelevance.

Followed by excruciating,

painful decline.

Followed by death.

And that is why it is always Day 1.

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes

its reward to the man who loves his work.

But...

I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward,

in the work that precedes what the world calls success.