Compulsions Quotes

The tongue like a sharp knife…

kills without drawing blood.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Beware;

for I am fearless,

and therefore powerful.

Noise proves nothing.

Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as

if she laid an asteroid.

Put some energy into it!

History will absolve me.

Don’t let anyone dim your sparkle.

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions

but to destroy the capacity to form any.

Suppose you were an idiot,

and suppose you were a member of Congress;

but I repeat myself.

To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.

You earn trust,

trust is not given.

New opinions are always suspected,

and usually opposed,

without any other reason but because they are not already common.

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

The charm of fishing is that

it is the pursuit of what is

elusive but attainable

a perpetual series of

occasions for hope.

For me,

there is no such thing as a negative experience.

No bird soars too high

if he soars with his own wings

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution.

That must be maintained,

for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time

that is given to us.

Get your facts first,

then you can distort them as you please.

The banality of evil.