Chartacter Quotes

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion

can be permanently maintained.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

The only thing that matters is doing your best on the field.

Change the way you look at things

and the things you look at change.

I perhaps ought to say that individually

I never was much interested in the Texas question.

I never could see much good to come of annexation,

inasmuch as they were already

a free republican people on our own model.

Every human being has a deep inner life that is worth exploring.

Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by

all and thought to include all; but now,

to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal,

it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till,

if its framers could rise from their graves,

they could not at all recognize it.

We aim above the mark

to hit the mark

Success is dependent on effort.

When I played in the sandbox,

the cat kept covering me up.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

That some achieve great success,

is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

India can live without nuclear weapons.

That's our dream,

and it should be the dream of the U.S.

also.

I find television very educating.

Every time somebody turns on the set,

I go into the other room and read a book.

The man who dies rich dies disgraced.

There is no trouble In the world That is more powerful Than your mind

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me

than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Liberty,

when it begins to take root,

is a plant of rapid growth.

Learning how to be still,

to really be still and

let life happen

that

stillness becomes a radiance.

My problem was my inability to spend much time at home.

I thought my family was secure,

so I went running around everyplace else.

I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids

than I did my own.