Archived Quotes

Good is positive.

Evil is merely privative,

not absolute: it is like cold,

which is the privation of heat.

All evil is so much death or nonentity.

Benevolence is absolute and real.

So much benevolence as a man hath,

so much life hath he.

Look in the mirror;

that's your competition.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God

who has endowed us with sense, reason,

and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

W Alphabet and Letter in Red

Well Brooke,

I've always liked her,

and when I was little I used to stay with Diana Ross,

me and my brothers stayed with her for years and I never said,

but I always had a crush on her.

I remember a specific moment,

watching my grandmother,

hang the clothes on the line,

and her saying to me,

you are going to have to learn to do this,

and me being in that space of awareness and knowing,

that my life would not be the same,

as my grandmother's life.

The advance of technology is based on

making it fit in so that you don’t really even notice it.

Before God we are all equally wise

and equally foolish.

Have enough courage to trust love one more time

and always one more time.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith

when by doing so it would be against his interests.

Don't let the noise of others' opinions

drown out your own inner voice.

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others,

and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.

Dreams are necessary to life.

A person who seeks to see the future

must first understand the present.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

I don’t want to be a star,

I want to be a legend.

As iron sharpens iron, so

a friend sharpens a friend