Archived Quotes

Creativity comes from vulnerability.

God never gives someone

a gift they are not

capable of receiving.

If he gives us the gift

of Christmas, it is

because we all have the

ability to understand

and receive it.

Duty,

honor,

country: Those three hallowed words reverently dictate

what you ought to be,

what you can be,

what you will be.

It has been my experience that folks

who have no vices have very few virtues.

Public sentiment is everything.

With public sentiment,

nothing can fail.

Without it,

nothing can succeed.

Music is freedom.

It allows me to express myself without limits.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies,

but not the madness of people.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until

they are too heavy to be broken.

Mathematics is written for mathematicians.

Great men are they who see that

spiritual is stronger than any material force

that thoughts rule the world.

The point is that you can’t be too greedy.

Look at how hard it was to get to where I am.

It doesn't make sense to give it up.

I’m not a fan of the easy way out.

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress;

therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken

until after they shall have deliberated

upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

Humor must not professedly teach

and it must not professedly preach,

but it must do both if it would live forever.

Genius is eternal patience.

If I were to try to read,

much less answer,

all the attacks made on me,

this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation,

and, on the other, to morals.

The game of thought is,

on the appearance of one of these two sides,

to find the other: given the upper,

to find the under side.

A man’s true measure is how he treats those

who can do nothing for him.