Chartacter Quotes

Passion is the engine of creativity.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel

that has crushed it.

Things are never quite

as scary when you've

got a best friend.

A single rose can

be my garden...

a single friend,

my world.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl

is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship,

I am disposed to endulge the professors of,

Christianity in the church,

that road to heaven which to them,

shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.

Your story is your power;

embrace it fully.

That I am not a member of any Christian church is true;

but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures,

and I have never spoken with

intentional disrespect of religion in general,

or of any denomination of Christians in particular.

Words are also actions,

and actions are a kind of words.

I cannot salute the flag;

I know that I am a black man in a white world.

In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919,

I know that I never had it made.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow

by evading it today.

Trust is good,

but control is better.

Patriotism is more than waving flags;

it is service and responsibility.

My psychiatrist told me I was crazy

and I said I want a second opinion.

He said okay, you're ugly too.

It was the experience of mystery

even if mixed with fear

that engendered religion.

Waste is worse than loss.

The time is coming,

when every person who lays claim to ability,

will keep the question of waste before him constantly,

The scope of thrift is limitless.

Knowing is not enough,

we must apply.

Willing is not enough,

we must do.