Compulsions Quotes

It is the duty of society to

provide protection for the weak and helpless.

I wanted to know the name of every stone

and flower and insect and bird and beast,

I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life

but there was no one to tell me.

The eyes of all future generations are upon you.

Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.

Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.

The world owes you nothing.

It was here first.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along

and you’re prepared for it.

All wars signify the failure of

conflict resolution mechanisms,

and they need post

war

rebuilding of faith, trust and

confidence.

Society is always taken by surprise

at any new example of common sense.

Let a hundred flowers bloom;

let a hundred schools of thought contend.

Most decisions should probably be

made with somewhere around 70% of the

information you wish you had.

We can't solve problems by using

the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

If you want to be happy, be.

You’re never too old to be childish.

An investor should act as though

he had a lifetime decision card with just twenty punches on it.

Blessed are the flexible,

for they shall not be bent out of shape.

It is not the style of clothes one wears,

neither the kind of automobile one drives,

nor the amount of money one has in the bank,

that counts.

These mean nothing.

It is simply service that measures success.

The man of genius inspires us

with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

If the great American people will only keep their temper,

on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end,

and the question which now distracts the country

will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of

like character which have originated in this government

have been adjusted.

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion

can be permanently maintained.