Archived Quotes

Focus on the process,

not the outcome.

The sky is falling,

but you gotta keep rising.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick.

Don't lose faith.

I'm tired of being treated like a second

class citizen.

The purpose of opening the mind,

as of opening the mouth,

is to shut it again on something solid.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality,

they are not certain,

and as far as they are certain,

they do not refer to reality.

The road to success and greatness is always paved

with consistent hard work.

Human beings must have action;

and they will make it if they cannot find it.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?

Our country is full.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

My first day in Chicago,

September 4 1983,

I set foot in this city,

and just walking down the street,

it was like roots,

like the motherland.

I knew I belonged here.

I intend to live forever.

So far,

so good.

Don’t grieve.

Anything you lose comes round in another form.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

We don't get a chance to do that many things,

and every one should be really excellent.

Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent

upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil

and in the proportionable amount of the same

which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.

My comedy is my life.

You're in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.