Archived Quotes

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind;

it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts

surely find peace.

What God intended for you goes

far beyond anything you can imagine.

It kills me to lose.

If I'm a troublemaker,

and I don't think that my temper makes me one,

then it's because I can't stand losing.

That's the way I am about winning,

all I ever wanted to do was finish first.

You have power over your mind—not outside events.

Realize this,

and you will find strength.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet;

this is not done by jostling in the street.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that

a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

Seventy percent of the time,

I work.

The other thirty,

I think about working.

The man who does not read good books

has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

Jesus did not come to make us safe.

He came to make us brave.

Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge

among the people.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies,

but not the madness of people.

You have brains in your head.

You have feet in your shoes.

You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.

You're on your own,

and you know what you know.

And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.

A Bible that’s falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t.

I would trade all of my technology for

an afternoon with Socrates.

When you love someone,

you have to be honest with yourself first.

I used to do drugs.

I still do drugs.

But I used to,

too.

You don’t have to be smarter than the rest.

You have to be more disciplined.

Much learning does not teach understanding.