Archived Quotes

Absence and death are the same

only that in death there is no suffering.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty,

but I never cared about acceptance as much as

I cared about respect.

To refuse awards is another way of

accepting them with more noise than is normal.

Ardently do today what must be done.

The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks,

but in how it thinks.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Why do you all push us around?

If we can teach people about wildlife,

they will be touched.

Share my passion,

and together we can save the planet.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

Community is a sign that love is possible in a broken world.

I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman,

but I have the heart and stomach of a king.

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee.

Unfortunately,

she was just coming home.

My comedy is my life.

After two years at UCLA,

I decided to leave.

I was convinced that no amount of education

would help a black man get a job.

The most important single thing is

to focus obsessively on the customer.

Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?

It’s not a faith in technology.

It’s faith in people.

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

I’ve failed over and over again in my life.

That is why I succeed.