Alphabet Quotes

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths,

but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

You make 'em,

I amuse 'em.

When something is important enough,

you do it even if the odds are not in your favor

Stay true to yourself and your roots.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues,

but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower.

Dreams aren’t just for sleeping.

Learn from the past,

set vivid, detailed

goals for the future,

and live in the only

moment of time over

which you have any

control: now.

One of the most important things is

to be honest with yourself and others.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

It is the supreme art of the teacher

to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Point your toes!

You're only a man,

so don't be so proud.

The banality of evil.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind,

but great actions speak to all mankind.

Civilization is a stream with banks.

The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing,

stealing, shouting, while on the banks,

unnoticed, people build homes, raise children,

sing songs, write poetry, and generally live.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love.

Your goodness must have some edge to it,

else it is none.

Truth is stranger than fiction,

but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities;

Truth isn't.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices

acquired by age eighteen.

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.