Archived Quotes

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

A great civilization is not conquered from without until

it has destroyed itself from within.

Try to learn to let what is simply be.

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs…

you’ll be a man, my son.

A friend is an

emotional bond,

just like friendship

is a human experience.

My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato

and someone to share it with.

I’m not afraid to be different.

I love the smell of rain

and I love the sound of

the ocean waves.

In the end,

we’ll all become stories.

Until we get equality in education,

we won’t have an equal society.

Selfhood is the path to true freedom.

If the doors of perception were cleansed,

everything would appear to man as it is: infinite.

There is only one corner of the universe

you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man

who is able to think things out for himself.

Patriotism is more than waving flags;

it is service and responsibility.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of

his aren't very new at all.

The final test of the worth of a society is

the quality of life of its citizens.

Ideas are more powerful than guns.

My parents were both born in Virginia,

of undistinguished families

second families,

perhaps I should say.

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep,

one must above all be a sheep oneself.