Archived Quotes

As you grow older,

you will discover that you have two hands,

one for helping yourself,

the other for helping others.

You win some,

you lose some,

but you always learn.

Truth is powerful and it prevails.

Success is walking

from failure to failure

with no loss of

enthusiasm.

Why are we,

as a nation so obsessed with foreign things?

Is it a legacy of our colonial years?

We want foreign television sets.

We want foreign shirts.

We want foreign technology.

Why this obsession with everything imported?

For it is in giving that we receive.

I understand a ship to be made for the carrying

and preservation of the cargo,

and so long as the ship can be saved, with the cargo,

it should never be abandoned.

This Union likewise should never be abandoned unless

it fails and the possibility of its preservation shall cease to exist,

without throwing passengers and cargo overboard.

Be like water making its way through cracks.

Do not be assertive,

but adjust to the object,

and you shall find a way around or through it.

When in doubt tell the truth.

My problem was my inability to spend much time at home.

I thought my family was secure,

so I went running around everyplace else.

I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids

than I did my own.

One of the huge mistakes people make is that

they try to force an interest on themselves.

You don't choose your passions.

Your passions choose you.

One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is

to invent your way out.

What we seek we shall find;

what we flee from flees from us.

Style over rules,

vibe over logic.

Quality is more important than quantity.

One home run is much better than two doubles.

Hawthorne sucks...

It's a crazy place,

and I'm happy that I was the weird one that got out.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

Nothing can harm you

as much as your own thoughts unguarded.

Make the best use of what is in your power,

and take the rest as it happens.

There are several good protections against temptation,

but the surest is cowardice.