Compulsions Quotes

Why are we,

as a nation so obsessed with foreign things?

Is it a legacy of our colonial years?

We want foreign television sets.

We want foreign shirts.

We want foreign technology.

Why this obsession with everything imported?

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery,

none but ourselves can free our minds.

There are all kinds of love in this world,

but never the same love twice.

Our best thoughts come from others.

The purpose of opening the mind,

as of opening the mouth,

is to shut it again on something solid.

Knowing is not enough,

we must apply.

Willing is not enough,

we must do.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes

the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

A tree is known by its fruit a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love

The only man who never makes a mistake

is the man who never does anything.

Until we get equality in education,

we won’t have an equal society.

My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results.

More seats were allocated for blacks,

but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites.

At least I had made my men realize

that something could be accomplished by speaking out,

and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.

Be yourself;

everyone else is already taken.

Life is complicated.

Politics is complicated.

But sometimes you just have to take a leap of faith.

Nothing is at last sacred but

the integrity of your own mind.

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children

and grandchildren is not money or other

material things accumulated in one’s life,

but rather a legacy of character and faith.

To love another person is to see the face of God.

I’m a big fan of the classic Hollywood era.

Seize the moment.

Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’

who waved off the dessert cart.

Leadership to me means duty,

honor,

country.

Try to be a rainbow

In someone's cloud.