Archived Quotes

I am who I am;

your approval is not needed.

My best friend is

the one who brings

out the best in me.

Everything has its limit

iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist.

They are wrong: it is character.

I think that slavery is wrong, morally,

socially and politically.

I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States,

and I should not object if it should gradually

terminate in the whole Union.

Every once in a while, I get mad.

'The Lorax' came out of my being angry.

The ecology books I'd read were dull...

In 'The Lorax,' I was out to attack

what I think are evil things and let the chips fall where they might.

With self

discipline most anything is possible.

As we look into the next century,

leaders will be those who empower others.

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones,

you’ll start having positive results.

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools,

but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

The truth is the Super Bowl

long ago became more than

just a football game.

It's part of our culture

like turkey at Thanksgiving

and lights at Christmas,

and like those holidays

beyond their meaning,

a factor in our economy.

A word after a word after a word is power.

'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas,

if not a dead lion for this work,

is at least a caged and toothless one.

How can he oppose the advances of slavery?

He don't care anything about it.

For somehow this is tyranny’s disease: to trust no friends.

Change is the law of life.

And those who look only to the past or present

are certain to miss the future.

It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn

that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy

, working at ten dollars per month)

have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth,

and aristocratic family distinction.

My observation is that

whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty...

it is worse executed by two persons,

and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.

What a kid I got,

I told him about the birds and the bee and he told me

about the butcher and my wife.

I’ve always been drawn to eccentric people

they keep life interesting.