Archived Quotes

Every morning we are born again.

What we do today is what matters most.

Gratitude can transform

common days into

thanksgivings,

turn routine jobs into joy,

and change ordinary

opportunities into blessings.

An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka

is the dream of youth of the nation.

My message for the youth is to collectively work for

an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.

Don't come back until you've practiced.

The freedom of the press belongs to those who own one.

For me,

it's like yesterday

I was driving the packages to the post office myself.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed

everything save our modes of thinking and

we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion.

You must set yourself on fire.

You will not be punished for your anger,

you will be punished by your anger.

No one is useless in this world

who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

The best thinking has been done in solitude.

The worst has been done in turmoil.

When I’m good,

I’m very good.

But when I’m bad,

I’m better.

The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker.

The mind is a fertile garden;

what you cultivate grows.

I installed a skylight in my apartment…

the people who live above me are furious.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.

Today, Negroes play on every big league club

and in every minor league.

With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life,

we are willing to stand up and be counted for what we believe in.

In baseball or out,

we are no longer willing to wait until Judgment Day for equality

we want it here on earth as well as in Heaven.

Learn from the past,

set vivid, detailed

goals for the future,

and live in the only

moment of time over

which you have any

control: now.