Archived Quotes

Give me liberty,

or give me death!

— Patrick Henry

The bird a nest,

the spider a web,

man friendship.

Yeah,

Wacko Jacko,

where did that come from?

Some English tabloid.

I have a heart and I have feelings.

I feel that when you do that to me.

It's not nice.

O Day of days when we can read!

The reader and the book,

either without the other is naught.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life,

and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do

what you believe is great work.

Repeal the Missouri Compromise

repeal all compromises repeal the Declaration of Independence

repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature.

It will be the abundance of man's heart that

slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart,

his mouth will continue to speak.

Where there is no vision,

there is no hope.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

The world is all gates,

all opportunities,

strings of tension waiting to be struck.

I rememeber one time we were getting ready to go to South America

and everything was packed up and in the car ready to go and

I hid and I was crying because I really did not want to go,

I wanted to play.

I did not want to go.

He who learns must suffer.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless,

and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain

too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Take the risk of thinking for yourself,

much more happiness,

truth,

beauty,

and wisdom will come to you that way.

The good thing about science is that it’s true

whether or not you believe in it.

We still do not know

one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

Life is about struggle,

but that struggle shapes you.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty.

The young are slaves to dreams;

the old servants of regrets.

Only the middle

aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.