Friend Quotes

Journalism is what maintains democracy.

It’s the first rough draft of history.

The world of reality has its limits;

the world of imagination is boundless.

In the end,

only three things matter: how much you loved,

how gently you lived,

and how gracefully you let go.

When we quarrel,

how we wish we had been blameless.

I am not what happened to me,

I am what I choose to become.

I’m a big fan of all

you can eat plans,

because they’re simpler for customers.

Civilization is a stream with banks.

The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing,

stealing, shouting, while on the banks,

unnoticed, people build homes, raise children,

sing songs, write poetry, and generally live.

Develop an attitude of gratitude,

and give thanks for everything that happens to you.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine

and shadows will fall behind you.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals

without ever going higher than a basement.

God writes the Gospel not

in the Bible alone, but

also on trees, and in the

flowers and clouds and stars.

Teamwork is the key to any success.

An investor should act as though

he had a lifetime decision card with just twenty punches on it.

Your talent is God's gift to you.

What you do with it is your gift back to God

Leo Buscaglia

My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union,

and is not either to save or to destroy slavery.

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave,

I would do it;

and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone,

I would also do that.

A liar begins with making

falsehood appear like truth,

and ends with making truth

itself appear like falsehood.

The man who does not read good books

has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

Two roads diverged in a wood,

and I—I took the one less traveled by,

and that has made all the difference.

The time comes upon every public man

when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

I’m a firm believer in the power of the individual.