Friend Quotes

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself

a refuge from almost all miseries of life.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day,

if I did not laugh I should die.

What a wonderful thought it is

that some of the best days of our lives haven't even happened yet.

Courage is found in unlikely places.

Be thine own palace,

or the world's thy jail

John Donne

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

That deep emotional conviction of

the presence of a superior reasoning power,

which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe,

forms my idea of God.

I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent

upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil

and in the proportionable amount of the same

which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.

The most important single ingredient in

the formula of success is knowing

how to get along with people.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that

only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance

with the will of God.

Both may be, and one must be wrong.

Keep your circle small and your dreams big.

A problem well stated is a problem half solved.

When I hear a man preach,

I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

There is nothing deep down inside us

except what we have put there ourselves

Richard Rorty

God enters by a private door into every individual.

Acting is not about being someone different.

It’s finding the similarity in what is apparently different,

then finding myself in there.

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.