Friend Quotes

Thunder is good,

thunder is impressive;

but it is lightning that does the work.

Never forget the three

powerful resources

you always have available

to you: love, prayer

and forgiveness.

Efficiency is doing things right;

effectiveness is doing the right things.

Be bold,

be fearless,

and say what needs to be said.

I'm not a person who wants to be a star.

I want to be an artist.

If the great American people will only keep their temper,

on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end,

and the question which now distracts the country

will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of

like character which have originated in this government

have been adjusted.

The problem with writing a book in verse is,

to be successful,

it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon.

It has to sound easy.

When you can do it,

it helps tremendously because it's a thing that forces kids to read on.

You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.

Everything has its wonders,

even darkness and silence,

and I learn,

whatever state I may be in,

therein to be content.

A samurai should always be prepared for death whether his own or someone else's.

There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

We must not fear mistakes,

for they are the steps to knowledge.

Communism is not love.

Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

Develop an attitude of gratitude,

and give thanks for everything that happens to you.

Our lives are fashioned by our choices.

First we make our choices.

Then our choices make us.

I come from there and I have memories.

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

The struggle of my life created empathy

I could relate to pain,

being abandoned,

having people not love me.

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.