valentine's week Quotes

War is what happens when language fails.

Hell, there are no rules here

we're trying to accomplish something.

Somewhere,

something incredible is waiting to be known.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like,

but in having the right to do what we ought.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire,

not things we fear.

Every individual matters.

Every individual has a role to play.

On Thanksgiving

I will stop to give thanks

that my family is

safe and healthy, especially

because I realize that,

following the tragedies

of this year, it is all too

real a possibility that they

might not have been.

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than

it is loved by the good.

I'm convinced that about half of

what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non

successful ones is pure perseverance.

Passion is energy,

Feel the power,

that comes from focusing

on what excites you.

He who has health,

has hope;

and he who has hope,

has everything.

Man needs his difficulties because

they are necessary to enjoy success.

The people themselves,

and not their servants,

can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

Genius is one percent inspiration

and ninety nine percent perspiration.

I stay out of politics because

if I begin thinking too much about politics,

I'll probably... drop writing children's books

and become a political cartoonist again.

stars are fire, stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.

Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent

upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil

and in the proportionable amount of the same

which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.

If Singapore is a nanny state,

then I am proud to have fostered one.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Everyone needs to be valued.

Everyone has the potential to give something back.