Archived Quotes

Desire is the starting

point of all achievement,

not a hope, not a wish,

but a keen pulsating desire

which transcends everything.

In a closed society where everybody’s guilty,

the only crime is getting caught.

In a world of thieves,

the only final sin is stupidity.

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

And I remember going to the record studio

and there was a park across the street

and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because

it would make me sad that I would have to work instead.

Be true to yourself;

don’t let fame change who you are.

I looked up my family tree and found

three dogs using it.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men;

true nobility is being superior to your former self.

The grand aim of all science is to cover

the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction

from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

God always takes the simplest way.

Complaining is not a strategy.

You have to work with the world as you find it.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you,

pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it

not for themselves and, under a just God,

cannot long retain it.

Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world.

If you do so,

you are insulting yourself.

Wisdom has its root in goodness,

not goodness its root in wisdom.

I go to assume a task more difficult than that

which devolved upon Washington.

Unless the great God, who assisted him,

shall be with me and aid me, I must fail;

but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm

that directed and protected him shall guide and support me,

I shall not fail I shall succeed.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president...

is morally treasonable to the American public.

My friends,

as I have discovered myself,

there are no disasters,

only opportunities.

You cannot do a kindness too soon,

for you never know how soon it will be too late.

I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that,

but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.

Thanksgiving just gets me

all warm and tingly and

all kinds of wonderful inside.