Accountm Quotes

I never think of the future

it comes soon enough.

As we look ahead into the next century,

leaders will be those who empower others.

Few are those who see with their own eyes

and feel with their own hearts.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

The occasion is piled high with difficulty,

and we must rise with the occasion.

As our case is new,

so we must think anew and act anew.

You're either humble or you're not.

If you were a jerk before the fame,

you just become a jerk with a bigger spotlight.

Whoever you are really comes through.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know

what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

The alternate domination of one faction over another,

sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension,

which in different ages and countries has perpetrated

the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.

But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.

Expectations are a form of first class truth:

If people believe it, it’s true.

Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as

spending our lives running from it.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

We’re here to put a dent in the universe.

Otherwise why else even be here?

A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is

prepared for a master, and deserves one.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Great dreams of great dreamers

are always transcended.

There are people who can do all fine

and heroic things but one keep from telling their

happiness to the unhappy.

Kindness and integrity are worth more than fame.

Everything should be made as simple as possible,

but not simpler.

Only kings,

presidents,

editors,

and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.'

Ideas are more powerful than guns.

I was close to getting married a long time ago. But it didn't happen, and since then it has not been happening. It is jinxed, and I am very happy. I hope this jinx continues