Archived Quotes

Everyone should have a passion.

If you’re passionate about something,

you’ll work hard at it.

You can’t live your life trying to please other people.

I can only say that there is not a man

living who wishes more sincerely than I do,

to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it

but there is only one proper and effectual mode by

which it can be accomplished,

and that is by Legislative authority: and this,

as far as my suffrage will go, shall never be wanting.

I know I’m not the best

looking guy in the world,

but I’m a good person.

Happiness is a butterfly,

which when pursued,

is always just beyond

your grasp, but which,

if you will sit down quietly,

may alight upon you.

I am among those who think that science has great beauty.

Take risks.

If you win,

you will be happy;

if you lose,

you will be wise.

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.

Whatever has happened to you in your past,

has no power over this present moment,

because life is now.

We don’t want to tell our dreams.

We want to show them.

Legislation is meaningful only when it empowers people.

If a country is to be

corruption free and become

a nation of beautiful minds,

I strongly feel there are

three key societal members

who can make a difference.

They are the father,

the mother and the teacher.

Over grown military establishments are

under any form of government inauspicious to liberty,

and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door

directly to what should be.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

The future belongs to those

who give the next generation reason for hope.

If the people of Utah shall peacefully form a State

Constitution tolerating polygamy,

will the Democracy admit them into the Union?

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you,

speak the very truth,

as your life and conscience teach it,

and cheer the waiting,

fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

I always tried to be correct,

not politically correct.