Archived Quotes

We take care of our own.

To thine own self be true.

Show me something I haven't seen before.

We are symbols,

and inhabit symbols.

Hard work and consistency always pay off.

Imagination without discipline is the mother of many useful errors.

I cannot salute the flag;

I know that I am a black man in a white world.

In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919,

I know that I never had it made.

Great things are brought to pass by small and simple means.

To live a pure unselfish life,

one must count nothing as one’s own.

Keep all special thoughts

and memories for

lifetimes to come.

Share these keepsakes

with others to inspire

hope and build from

the past, which can

bridge to the future.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.

We, of this Congress and this administration,

will be remembered in spite of ourselves.

No personal significance, or insignificance,

can spare one or another of us.

The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down

in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

Blood,

sweat,

and respect.

The first two you give.

The last you earn.

Life opens up opportunities to you,

and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

Laughter is timeless,

imagination has no age,

dreams are forever.

Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts;

differences will always be there.

Peace means solving these differences

through peaceful means.

The reason why men do not obey us,

is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

You have to be brave enough to be bad at something new.

The only real voyage of discovery is not in seeing new sights

but in seeing things anew.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

I don't want to be a part of any club

that would have me as a member.