Chartacter Quotes

Every setback is a setup for a comeback.

Ideas are more powerful than guns.

A word after a word after a word is power.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow

by evading it today.

I’ve always been drawn to eccentric people

they keep life interesting.

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man

for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of,

and scoffer at, religion.

You don’t take a photograph,

you make it.

The common question that gets asked in business is,

Why?

That’s a good question,

but an equally valid question is,

Why not?

I can’t help but laugh at how perfect I am.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered

either by themselves or by others.

Seize the moment.

Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’

who waved off the dessert cart.

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

Let us not be too particular;

it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

Never retreat.

Never explain.

Get it done

and

let them howl

Benjamin Jowett

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries.

Without them humanity cannot survive.

Use what language you will,

you can never say anything but what you are.

No matter what people

tell you,

words and ideas can

change the world.

The standard is the standard.

One of the more difficult tasks for me as president

was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment

awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases

which were pending had a social and economic bias.

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.