Chartacter Quotes

I have been refused entrance on the buses because

I would not pay my fare at the front

and go around to the rear door to enter.

That was the custom if the bus was crowded up to the point

where the white passengers would start occupying.

Laws control the lesser man...

Right conduct controls the greater one.

Every stumble is not a fall,

and every fall does not mean failure.

God never gives someone

a gift they are not

capable of receiving.

If he gives us the gift

of Christmas, it is

because we all have the

ability to understand

and receive it.

If everything you do needs to work on a three

year time horizon,

then you’re competing against a lot of people.

If a fellow isn't thankful

for what he's got,

he isn't likely to be thankful

for what he's going to get

Before God we are all equally wise

and equally foolish.

The longer I live,

the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us

dreamers and indolent...

It is good to begin life poor;

it is good to begin life rich

these are wholesome;

but to begin it prospectively rich!

The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

My books are like water;

those of the great geniuses are wine.

(Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

A brave heart may be trusted to do its best.

Only one thing is impossible for God:

To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

What God intended for you goes

far beyond anything you can imagine.

Do not save what is left after spending;

instead spend what is left after saving.

I dissent.

I wasn't shy,

but I was really hyper.

Nobody got my sense of humor.

I was a black skater kid.

I can,

therefore I am

Simone Weil

I’m a very private person.

To describe my mother would be to

write about a hurricane in its perfect power.