Chartacter Quotes

The best time for planning a book is while you’re doing the dishes.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door

directly to what should be.

Death is the solution to all problems. No man

no problem.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Where there is no struggle,

there is no strength.

The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning,

but to teach life.

I hold that while man exists,

it is his duty to improve not only his own condition,

but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

There is a blessed necessity by

which the interest of men is always driving them to the right;

and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

One way to keep momentum going is to have

constantly greater goals

Michael Korda

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second.

When you sit on a red

hot cinder a second seems like an hour.

That's relativity.

Get out of the room.

The whole point of being alive

is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.

It kills me to lose.

If I'm a troublemaker,

and I don't think that my temper makes me one,

then it's because I can't stand losing.

That's the way I am about winning,

all I ever wanted to do was finish first.

If you let the world know who you are,

it will either accept you or reject you.

It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

A man's growth is seen in

the successive choirs of his friends.

When you're the most successful person in your family,

in your neighborhood,

and in your town,

everybody thinks you're the First National Bank,

and you have to figure out for yourself where those boundaries are.

It is the supreme art of the teacher

to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental

and individual symbol for an universal one.