Archived Quotes

I believe that every single event in life

happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.

We are all Republicans,

we are all Federalists.

The only thing worse than being blind is

having sight but no vision.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

The right word may be effective,

but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

In the end,

we create ourselves.

That's the gift that a mother can give,

to make everyone feel like they are the special one.

Most people overestimate

what they can do in one year and underestimate

what they can do in ten years.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and Do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Absorb what is useful,

discard what is not,

add what is uniquely your own.

A man’s mind,

stretched by a new idea,

never regains its original size.

I love the smell of rain

and I love the sound of

the ocean waves.

Philosophically considered,

the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul.

Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us,

all which Philosophy distinguishes as the 'Not Me,' that is,

both nature and art,

all other men and my own body,

must be ranked under this name,

Nature.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and

I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Climbing to the top demands strength,

whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten

what one has learned in school.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Noise proves nothing.

Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as

if she laid an asteroid.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science

that by acting on the human mind

it has overcome man's insecurity

before himself and before nature.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.