Archived Quotes

Don’t wait for the stars to align,

reach up and rearrange them the way you want.

Create your own constellation.

With our thoughts,

we make the world.

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine,

should any ever do so,

it is my intention to do all in my power to

make her happy and contented;

and there is nothing I can imagine that would

make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied

by lip service to an ideal.

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

The good thing about science is that it’s true

whether or not you believe in it.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

Heard melodies are sweet,

but those unheard are sweeter.

It is essential that there should be organization of labor.

This is an era of organization.

Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.

The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because

it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.

I don't care what people think of me.

Take time to deliberate;

but when the time for action arrives,

stop thinking and go in.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

Each life is made up of

mistakes and learning

waiting and growing

practicing patience and

being persistent.

At the end of the day

the most overwhelming

key to a child's success

is the positive

involvement of parents.

The wealth of information now available at

the click of a finger amazes me.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Scouting is not a game;

it is a preparation for life.

I’m the one that’s going to be embarrassed.

Associate yourself with men of good quality

if you esteem your own reputation;

for it is better to be alone than in bad company.