Friend Quotes

I think the things you regret most in life are

the things you didn't do.

The general idea of the rich helping

the poor is important.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist.

They are wrong: it is character.

I think and think for months and years.

Ninety nine times,

the conclusion is false.

The hundredth time I am right.

For it is in giving that we receive.

We are comfortable planting seeds and

waiting for them to grow into trees.

I told my wife the truth.

I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist.

Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist,

two plumbers, and a bartender.

Stay focused on your goals,

no matter the distractions.

It is better to be feared than loved,

if you cannot be both.

I want everybody to understand that

I am an American Negro first before

I am a member of any political party.

Art is the way I process the world around me.

A man watches his pear tree day after day,

impatient for the ripening of the fruit.

Let him attempt to force the process,

and he may spoil both fruit and tree.

But let him patiently wait,

and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

The tongue like a sharp knife…

kills without drawing blood.

This time,

like all times,

is a very good one,

if we but know what to do with it.

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

Even death is not to be feared by one

who has lived wisely.

When a person cannot deceive himself

the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

The value of a man resides in his ideas,

not in his possessions.

I had to spend my life persuading my people

that what I was doing was the right thing.