Chartacter Quotes

I had reasoned this out in my mind;

there was one of two things I had a right to,

liberty or death.

Cowards die many times before their death;

the valiant never taste of death but once.

For somehow this is tyranny’s disease: to trust no friends.

Delight in meditation and solitude.

Life will give you whatever experience is

most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness;

only light can do that.

Hate cannot drive out hate;

only love can do that.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind,

but great actions speak to all mankind.

Over the years,

I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly;

to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher

in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.

History is written by those who think and reflect on it.

The Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute accepts people of any race.

We don't discriminate against anyone.

We teach people to reach their highest potential.

I set examples by the way I lead my life.

A man is a god in ruins.

When men are innocent,

life shall be longer,

and shall pass into the immortal,

as gently as we awake from dreams.

As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway,

think big.

The whole secret of

a successful life is

to find out what is

one's destiny to do,

and then do it.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time,

and your government when it deserves it.

Compare yourself to who you were yesterday,

not to who someone else is today.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery,

none but ourselves can free our minds.

George Washington, as a boy,

was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth.

He could not even lie.

I am rather inclined to silence.

Well,

especially now I come to realize and then

I would do my schooling which was three hours with a tutor

and right after that I would go to the recording studio and record,

and I'd record for hours and hours until it's time to go to sleep.