Compulsions Quotes

When I was born I was so ugly

the doctor slapped my mother.

I had felt for a long time that,

if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit,

that I would refuse to do so.

I always tried to be correct,

not politically correct.

Do the one thing you think you cannot do.

Fail at it.

Try again.

Do better the second time.

The only people who never tumble,

those who never mount the high wire,

This is your moment,

Own it.

The finest clothing made is a person's own skin,

but, of course,

society demands something more than this.

The soul is healed by being with children.

Hire people who are right a lot.

Be proud of who you are,

and not ashamed of how someone else sees you.

It is the supreme art of the teacher

to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Life is too short to take everything seriously.

My dream is of a place and a time

where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life.

Comes into us at midnight very clean.

It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking

if mankind is to survive.

There is no more dangerous enemy than a foolish friend.

Poetry comes from the

highest happiness

or

the deepest sorrow.

Spread love everywhere you go.

Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

Only through focus

can you do world class things.

Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship,

I am disposed to endulge the professors of,

Christianity in the church,

that road to heaven which to them,

shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.

Knowing is not enough;

we must apply.

Willing is not enough;

we must do.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.