Alphabet Quotes

There is more difference in the quality

of our pleasures than in the amount.

I too sing America.

The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks,

but in how it thinks.

Compare yourself to who you were yesterday,

not to who someone else is today.

I’m a very private person.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow

by evading it today.

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.

Good governance is the key to a prosperous nation.

Move fast and break things.

Smile,

even if you’re dying inside.

For last year’s words belong to last year’s language,

and next year’s words await another voice.

I feel like I’m too busy writing history to read it.

I care not much for a man's religion

whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

I am not bound to win,

but I am bound to be true.

I am not bound to succeed,

but I am bound to live by the light that I have.

I must stand with anybody that stands right,

and stand with him while he is right,

and part with him when he goes wrong.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

The things that will destroy America are

prosperity at any price, peace at any price,

safety first instead of duty first,

the love of soft living, and the get rich quick theory of life.

You have power over your mind—not outside events.

Realize this,

and you will find strength.

Principles are fine until you have to act on them.

If it wasn't for pick

pockets I'd have no sex life at all.