Cheaper Quotes

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

I don't care what people think of me.

When they call the roll in the Senate,

the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'

When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball,

I can only marvel at the many black players

who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because

they had nowhere else to go.

Better than conquering

a thousand men in battle is conquering oneself.

I don't know who I am,

but I know who I'm not.

War is what happens when language fails.

Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.

Words can be like X

rays

if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything.

By what principle of original right is it that one

fiftieth or one

ninetieth of a great nation,

by calling themselves a State,

have the right to break up and ruin that nation

as a matter of original principle?

Nature is a mutable cloud

which is always and never the same.

The future belongs to those who are prepared for it.

Justice must be active,

not passive.

Let us raise a standard to

which the wise and honest can repair;

the rest is in the hands of God.

No man succeeds without

a good woman behind him.

Wife or mother,

if it is both,

he is twice blessed indeed.

I’ve always been a bit of a dreamer.

Beauty is an outward gift,

which is seldom despised,

except by those to whom,

it has been refused.

To live is the rarest thing in the world.

Most people exist,

that is all.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

You’re only given a little spark of madness.

You mustn’t lose it.