Archived Quotes

Concede that the new government of Louisiana

is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl;

we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg

than by smashing it.

Most people never pick up the phone and call.

Most people never ask.

Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.

I don’t believe in regrets,

I believe in experiences.

If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path,

walk alone.

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction?

Fiction,

after all,

has to make sense.

When you have a dream,

you've got to grab it

and never let go.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues,

but the parent of all others.

If we are not free,

no one will respect us.

When I do good I feel good,

when I do bad I feel bad,

and that's my religion.

If there is not the war,

you don't get the great general;

if there is not a great occasion,

you don't get a great statesman;

if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace,

no one would have known his name.

As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust,

do not burden your heart with judgments.

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

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Change your life today.

Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay

Simone de Beauvoir

You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life,

but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.

In life,

you learn lessons,

and sometimes you learn them the hard way.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed

everything save our modes of thinking and

we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

Don’t bend;

don’t water it down;

don’t try to make it logical;

don’t edit your own soul.

Take risks,

push yourself,

and leave it all in the ring.