Archived Quotes

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl

is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

But who prays for Satan?

Who, in eighteen centuries,

has had the common humanity

to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

I’m not a businessman.

I’m a business,

man.

Not all of us can do great things.

But we can do small things with great love.

I have always hated slavery, I think,

as much as any abolitionist.

I have been an Old Line Whig.

I have always hated it,

but I have always been quiet about it until

this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.

Attitude is more important than facts.

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

I found there was only one way to look thin:

hang out with fat people.

Man is condemned to be free.

Time flies like an arrow;

fruit flies like a banana.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course,

is that people will insist on coming along and putting things in it.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

A sweet friendship

Refreshes the soul.

Your work is to discover your world

and then with all your heart give yourself to it.

Information is not knowledge.

Courage is contagious.

When a brave man takes a stand,

the spines of others are often stiffened.

It is only through labor and painful effort,

by grim energy and resolute courage,

that we move on to better things.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process All begins.

Be happy with being you.

Love yourself first,

and everything else falls into line.