Compulsions Quotes

If you're constantly pushing yourself higher,

higher, the law of averages

not to mention the myth of Icarus

predicts that you will at some point fall.

And when you do,

I want you to know this,

remember this: There is no such thing as failure.

I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen,

but a man who loves me as a woman.

The only thing in life that counts is being happy and honest.

Those are my principles,

and if you don’t like them…

well, I have others.

One of the more difficult tasks for me as president

was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment

awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases

which were pending had a social and economic bias.

The problem with writing a book in verse is,

to be successful,

it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon.

It has to sound easy.

When you can do it,

it helps tremendously because it's a thing that forces kids to read on.

You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope.

He wants to reform the world.

When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world,

but he knows he can't.

Life’s short.

You’ve got to get what you can while you can.

He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it

not for themselves and, under a just God,

cannot long retain it.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness.

It is not attained through self

gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

The human body has two ends on it:

one to create with and one to sit on.

Sometimes people get their ends reversed.

When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

The rich invest in time,

the poor invest in money.

I’m not concerned with awards.

I’m concerned with respect.

Friendship with ones

self is all important,

because without it one

cannot be friends with

anyone else in the world.

Maybe Christmas,

the Grinch thought,

doesn't come from a store.

My wife and I were happy for 20 years.

Then we met.

To succeed in your mission,

you must have single

minded devotion to your goal.

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution.

That must be maintained,

for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

It is always in season for old men to learn.