Friend Quotes

It is far better to be alone,

than to be in bad company.

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

Those who have a ‘why’ to live,

can bear almost any ‘how.’

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize

how little we understand about life, ourselves,

and the world around us.

People always say that I didn't give up my seat because

I was tired, but that isn't true.

I was not tired physically...

No,

the only tired I was,

was tired of giving in.

I don't think of myself

as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good.

I think of myself as somebody

who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself,

and I had to make good.

When I’m good,

I’m very good.

But when I’m bad,

I’m better.

Compassion is the radicalism of our time.

As I would not be a slave,

so I would not be a master.

This expresses my idea of democracy.

The past cannot be changed.

The future is yet in your power

Don't be trapped by dogma.

Hold fast to dreams,

for if dreams die,

life is a broken

winged bird that cannot fly.

I had plenty of pimples as a kid.

One day I fell asleep in the library.

When I woke up,

a blind man was reading my face.

Foreknowledge is a tool;

wisdom is knowing how to use it.

God made the Idiot for practice,

and then He made the School Board.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

We don’t want to tell our dreams.

We want to show them.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley can you ever know

how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

When I was younger I could remember anything,

whether it happened or not.