शांत Quotes

Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.

This country,

with its institutions,

belongs to the people who inhabit it.

Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government,

they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it,

or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes

liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere.

Destroy this spirit and you have planted

the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

I was born 50 years after slavery, in 1913.

I was allowed to read.

My mother, who was a teacher,

taught me when I was a very young child.

The first school I attended was a small building

that went from first to sixth grade.

There was one teacher for all of the students.

There could be anywhere from 50 to 60 students of all different ages.

For prayer is nothing

else than being on terms

of friendship with God.

Youth is the gift of nature,

but age is a work of art.

Communism is not love.

Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

We are willing to be misunderstood

for long periods of time.

If the stars should appear but one

night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

There's not an American in this country

free until every one of us is free.

There are three rules for writing:

1) Avoid clichés,

2) Avoid clichés,

3) Avoid clichés.

There’s a difference between winning and being successful.

I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It's not The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone

Waste is worse than loss.

The time is coming,

when every person who lays claim to ability,

will keep the question of waste before him constantly,

The scope of thrift is limitless.

Poetry comes from the

highest happiness

or

the deepest sorrow.

You have to trust in something—your gut,

destiny, life, karma, whatever.

In a world that’s changing really quickly,

the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

The road to success

And

The road to failure

Are

Almost exactly the same.

We cannot solve a crisis without treating it as a crisis.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times,

always with the same person.