Archived Quotes

Don’t be afraid to go a little different and create your own world.

Imperfection is beauty,

madness is genius,

and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.

Pain is part of the process;

it builds character.

Those who persevere in sin are those who are held in abhorrence by God, but those who abandon the ways of sin are loved by the Lord.

I do not think much of a man

who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Arriving at one goal is

the starting point to another

John Dewey

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results.

More seats were allocated for blacks,

but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites.

At least I had made my men realize

that something could be accomplished by speaking out,

and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.

That's the gift that a mother can give,

to make everyone feel like they are the special one.

You are an aperture through

which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

It is better to take what does not belong to you

than to let it lie around neglected.

Show class,

have pride,

and display character.

Nature is a mutable cloud

which is always and never the same.

I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man.

Kindness and integrity are worth more than fame.

Men love to wonder,

and that is the seed of science.

As we are, so we associate.

The good, by affinity,

seek the good;

the vile, by affinity, the vile.

Thus of their own volition,

souls proceed into Heaven,

into Hell.

Successful people do

What unsuccessful people

Are not willing to do.

Don't wish it were easier;

Wish you were better.