Archived Quotes

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life.

The only completely consistent people are the dead.

R Alphabet and Letter in Red

There’s a difference between winning and being successful.

Intellectual growth should commence

at birth and cease only at death.

I was so ugly my mother used to feed me

with a sling shot.

Don’t let anyone silence your story.

Without revolutionary theory

there can be no revolutionary movement.

I thank God for my failures

Maybe not at the time but

after some reflection.

I never feel like a failure

just because something

I tried has failed.

Stay true to yourself;

authenticity will always resonate.

Much of the social history of the Western world

over the past three decades has involved replacing

what worked with what sounded good.

We cannot despair of humanity,

since we ourselves are human beings.

Count your age by friends,

not years.

Count your life by smiles,

not tears.

England expects that every man will do his duty.

I attribute my success to this

I never gave or took any excuse

Florence Nightingale

I just want to be remembered as someone

who helped push culture forward.

Every child is an artist.

The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Great men are they who see that

spiritual is stronger than any material force

that thoughts rule the world.

Too many of us are not living our dreams

because we are living our fears.

Man is the only animal that blushes

or needs to.

There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage,

than the promotion of science and literature.

Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.