Compulsions Quotes

We are a puny and fickle folk.

Avarice,

hesitation,

and following are our diseases.

I was a disadvantaged child from a non

educated family,

yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.

Much of the social history of the Western world

over the past three decades has involved replacing

what worked with what sounded good.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required

within five years to learn English or leave the country.

Your mind is the most powerful weapon you have.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

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

I’m not a fan of the mainstream.

Some people come into

our life as a blessing,

while others come into

our life as a lesson,

so love them for who

they are instead of

judging them for

who they are not.

Everybody

wants to go to

heaven,

but nobody wants to

die.

If the world comes to an end,

I want to be in Cincinnati.

Everything comes there ten years later.

Principles have no real force except

when one is well fed.

There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage,

than the promotion of science and literature.

Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to

keep a young man down; and they will succeed,

too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from

its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

Every wall is a door.

I do the very best I know how

the very best I can;

and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?

Most decisions should probably be

made with somewhere around 70% of the

information you wish you had.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet.

Try to make sense of what you see, and

wonder about what makes the universe exist.

Be curious