Chartacter Quotes

I don’t go by the rule book;

I lead from the heart.

When truth is on your side, you don't need support.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

Real living is living for others.

Don’t let anyone silence your story.

In 'Huckleberry Finn,'

I have drawn Tom Blankenship exactly as he was.

He was ignorant, unwashed,

insufficiently fed;

but he had as good a heart as ever any boy had.

I try to tell all the

not even the kids,

even people older than me

to just be themselves.

Don't wear what I wear 'cause I wear it;

wear what you like.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us

The care of the insane is not merely a charitable duty

but a public necessity.

Change the way you look at things

and the things you look at change.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life

that one exists for other people.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method

for dealing with the darkness of other people.

It is the supreme art of the teacher

to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn

that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy

, working at ten dollars per month)

have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth,

and aristocratic family distinction.

I remember a specific moment,

watching my grandmother,

hang the clothes on the line,

and her saying to me,

you are going to have to learn to do this,

and me being in that space of awareness and knowing,

that my life would not be the same,

as my grandmother's life.

You cannot succeed without taking risks.

Patriotism is more than waving flags;

it is service and responsibility.

The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because

it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.

For 2,500 years,

India has never invaded anybody.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.