Chartacter Quotes

I’ve always been a bit of a storyteller.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

Where there is no struggle,

there is no strength.

The only way to enjoy life is through music.

We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth.

No individual has any right to come into the world

and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct

and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.

Yesterday is not ours

To recover,

But tomorrow is ours

To win or lose

Every business is a living document

that needs to be improved.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Labor to keep alive in your breast

that little spark of celestial fire,

called conscience.

Real integrity is doing the right thing,

knowing that nobody's going,

to know whether you did it or not.

In my view of the present aspect of affairs,

there is no need of bloodshed and war.

There is no necessity for it.

I am not in favor of such a course,

and I may say in advance,

there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government.

The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

Patience is a key element of success.

Pressure is an opportunity to show what you’re made of.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things

you cannot learn any other way.

Faith and reason are like two wings on

which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth.

You cannot teach a man anything;

you can only help him find it within himself.

I came from a real tough neighborhood.

I put my hand in some cement and felt another hand.

Wine is sunlight,

held together by water.

My dad was a tough guy,

but he was also a very funny guy.