Chartacter Quotes

Far better is it to dare mighty things,

to win glorious triumphs,

even though checkered by failure...

than to rank with those poor spirits

who neither enjoy nor suffer much,

because they live in a gray twilight

that knows not victory nor defeat.

I still have my feet on the ground,

I just wear better shoes.

My wife said I should do lunges to stay in shape.

That would be a big step forward.

Each age,

it is found,

must write its own books;

or rather,

each generation for the next succeeding.

My music is my life.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

To live is the rarest thing in the world.

Most people exist,

that is all.

He who makes a beast of himself

gets rid of the pain of being a man.

Loyalty to the Nation all the time,

loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

You have to be strong.

No bird soars too high

if he soars with his own wings

Everything we hear is an opinion,

not a fact.

Everything we see is a perspective,

not the truth.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present

There are three rules for writing:

1) Avoid clichés,

2) Avoid clichés,

3) Avoid clichés.

Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression.

We soothe ourselves with the salve of attempted indifference,

accepting the false pattern set up by

the horrible restriction of Jim Crow laws.

If you don't love it,

you're going to fail.

Love somebody.

Just one person.

And then spread that to two.

And as many as you can.

You'll see the difference it makes.

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is

the first necessity of progress.

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

In the depth of winter,

I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Do not tell fish stories where the people know you;

but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.