Alphabet Quotes

It is easier to stay out than get out.

Sometimes the heart wants what it wants,

even if it breaks.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

For every complex problem,

there is a solution that is clear,

simple, and wrong.

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find,

but symmetrical men never.

You spend your whole lifetime in your occupation,

actually making life clever,

easy and convenient for white people.

But when you have to get transportation home,

you are denied an equal accommodation.

Our existence was for the white man's comfort and well being;

we had to accept being deprived of just being human.

Management is about persuading people

to do things they do not want to do,

while leadership is about inspiring people

to do things they never thought they could do.

No religion has mandated killing others

as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.

The seed of my success was my curiosity.

Mankind,

when left to themselves,

are unfit for their own government.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are.

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds’ worth of distance run.

It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy.

Human decency is not derived from religion.

It precedes it.

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools,

but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

I don't have a therapist,

so I use me as my own therapist when I'm making the music.

A platform is when the economic value of everybody

that uses it exceeds the value of the company

that creates it.

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.

It is not what we do,

but also what we do not do,

for which we are accountable.