Chartacter Quotes

I don't think of myself

as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good.

I think of myself as somebody

who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself,

and I had to make good.

In order for the light to shine so brightly,

the darkness must be present.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes

liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere.

Destroy this spirit and you have planted

the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

Hope lies in dreams in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.

Change will not come

if we wait for some other person or some other time.

You can’t just ask customers what they want.

I will honor Christmas

in my heart, and

try to keep it

all the year.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned

an invisible government owing no allegiance

and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

I found there was only one way to look thin:

hang out with fat people.

I believe it is in my nature

to dance by virtue of

the beat of my heart,

the pulse of my blood

and the music in my mind.

We have not invaded anyone.

We have not conquered anyone.

We have not grabbed their land,

their culture,

their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.

I don’t know why people think dreams are nonsense.

Success is a lousy teacher.

It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

We are all going to die,

so why not laugh?

It was the best of times,

it was the worst of times.

Let me say,

at the risk of seeming ridiculous,

that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty.

The young are slaves to dreams;

the old servants of regrets.

Only the middle

aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

The most luxurious possession,

the richest treasure anybody has,

is his personal dignity.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.