Friend Quotes

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

Life is a test.

Everybody gets tested.

The problem of the twentieth century is

the problem of the color line.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

In 'Huckleberry Finn,'

I have drawn Tom Blankenship exactly as he was.

He was ignorant, unwashed,

insufficiently fed;

but he had as good a heart as ever any boy had.

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

The value of a principle is

the number of things it will explain.

It ain't those parts of the Bible

that I can't understand that bother me,

it is the parts that I do understand.

A woman is the only thing

I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me,

but I think she enjoyed it.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people

and not like that of a million people.

Dream,

dream,

dream!

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.

You have to run your own race,

at your own pace.

An eye for an eye…

we are all blind.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look,

it's a sure sign you're getting old.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

I believe in hard work,

and I believe in patience and learning from mistakes.

I remember a specific moment,

watching my grandmother,

hang the clothes on the line,

and her saying to me,

you are going to have to learn to do this,

and me being in that space of awareness and knowing,

that my life would not be the same,

as my grandmother's life.

Self

belief and hard work will always earn you success.