Archived Quotes

If we ever forget that we

are One Nation Under God,

then we will be a

nation gone under.

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly,

our whole life would change.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.

Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Most people never pick up the phone and call.

Most people never ask.

Self reliance is the key to

life’s happiness.

I wanted to minimize the number of regrets

I had when I was 80.

Nothing astonishes men

so much as common sense and plain dealing.

You can get help from teachers,

but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself,

sitting alone in a room.

If you're constantly pushing yourself higher,

higher, the law of averages

not to mention the myth of Icarus

predicts that you will at some point fall.

And when you do,

I want you to know this,

remember this: There is no such thing as failure.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

Real education enhances the dignity of a human being

and increases his or her self respect.

If only the real sense of education could be realized by

each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity,

the world will be so much a better place to live in.

It always seems impossible until it's done

The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life.

It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena

that exist in all of creation.

Everyone needs to be valued.

Everyone has the potential to give something back.

The vegetable life does not content

itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed,

but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that,

if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves,

that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity;

that, at least one may replace the parent.

Look at the sky.

We are not alone.

The whole universe

is friendly to us and

conspires only to

give the best to those

who dream and work.

In art, the hand can never execute anything

higher than the heart can imagine.

Learning how to be still,

to really be still and let life happen

that stillness becomes a radiance.

If the doors of perception were cleansed,

everything would appear to man as it is: infinite.

I never smoke to excess that is,

I smoke in moderation,

only one cigar at a time.