Archived Quotes

Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.

I’m as proud of many of the things

we haven’t done as the things we have done.

Compare yourself to who you were yesterday,

not to who someone else is today.

We can make market forces work better for

the poor if we can develop a more creative capitalism.

The colonel replied that he didn't care

how my men had got the job done.

He was happy that it had been accomplished.

He said that, obviously,

no matter how much or how little I knew technically,

I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

Whether it be true or not,

I can say, for one, that I have no other

so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow

men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

How far I shall succeed in gratifying

this ambition is yet to be developed.

Three things in human life are important:

the first is to be kind;

the second is to be kind;

and the third is to be kind.

The struggle continues until we achieve justice for all.

Fan the sinking flame

of hilarity with the

wing of friendship;

and pass the rosy wine.

If you love it enough,

anything will talk with you.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,

committed citizens can change the world.

Indeed,

it is the only thing that ever has.

There are no strangers here;

only friends you haven’t yet met.

If you can't explain it simply,

you don't understand it well enough.

From a child,

I had an inordinate desire for knowledge and especially music,

painting, flowers, and the sciences,

Algebra being one of my favorite studies.

You may be the first,

but make sure you’re not the last.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

When you become the image of your own imagination,

it’s the most powerful thing you could ever do.