Death Quotes

Everyone thinks of changing the world,

but no one thinks of changing himself.

Biographies,

as generally written,

are not only misleading but false...

In most instances,

they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.

The more we value things,

the less we value ourselves.

If the tongue had not been

framed for articulation,

man would still be a beast in the forest.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

You have to have a sense of humor about yourself.

But who prays for Satan?

Who, in eighteen centuries,

has had the common humanity

to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

Every stumble is not a fall,

and every fall does not mean failure.

You have power over your mind—not outside events.

Realize this,

and you will find strength.

There will one day spring from the brain of science

a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities,

so absolutely terrifying, that even man,

the fighter,

who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death,

will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

You have to be passionate about what you do.

Form follows function

that has been misunderstood.

Form and function should be one.

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don’t make.

Concentration is my motto — first honesty,

then industry,

then concentration.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Economic depression cannot be cured by

legislative action or executive pronouncement.

A man cannot be comfortable

without his own approval.

I know where I'm going

and I know the truth,

and I don't have to be

what you want me to be.

I'm free to be what I want.