Chartacter Quotes

I’m as proud of many of the things

we haven’t done as the things we have done.

If you judge people,

you have no time to love them.

The legal right of the Southern people to reclaim

their fugitives I have constantly admitted.

The legal right of Congress to interfere with

their institution in the states,

I have constantly denied.

As you become more clear about who you really are,

you'll be better able to decide what is best for you

the first time around.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president...

is morally treasonable to the American public.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles...

by the ears,

by the heels,

or any other way you can manage it.

I never think of the future

it comes soon enough.

Nature is the best designer.

The government is us;

we are the government,

you and I.

Life is about capturing fleeting moments

and turning them into meaning.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended;

yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

I don’t like losers.

You CAN have it all.

You just can't have it all at once.

No such thing as a life that’s better than yours.

You cannot win without risk.

Be kind whenever possible.

It is always possible.

When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball,

I can only marvel at the many black players

who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because

they had nowhere else to go.

Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books

should be such a popular fellow?

Why are we,

as a nation so obsessed

with foreign things?

Is it a legacy of

our colonial years?

We want foreign television sets.

We want foreign shirts.

We want foreign technology.

Why this obsession with

everything imported?

With Malice toward none,

with charity for all,

with firmness in the right,

as God gives us to see the right,

let us strive on to finish the work we are in,

to bind up the nation's wounds.