Friend Quotes

Understand that the right to choose your own path,

calling is and to be led by thatm,Use it.

Dwell in possibility.

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.

Dreams without goals remain dreams.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education

and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry

shall become much more general than at present,

and should be gratified to have it in my power

to contribute something to the advancement of

any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate

the happy period.

Preachers in pulpits talked about

what a great message is in the book.

No matter what you do,

somebody always imputes meaning into your books.

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service,

than the neglect of discipline;

for that discipline,

more than numbers,

gives one army,

the superiority over another.

Defeat is a state of mind;

no one is ever defeated until

defeat has been accepted as a reality.

Repeal the Missouri Compromise

repeal all compromises repeal the Declaration of Independence

repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature.

It will be the abundance of man's heart that

slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart,

his mouth will continue to speak.

After two years at UCLA,

I decided to leave.

I was convinced that no amount of education

would help a black man get a job.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

The way for a young man to rise

is to improve himself in every way he can,

never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

A man is never more truthful than

when he acknowledges himself a liar.

Kindness and integrity are worth more than fame.

My parents were both born in Virginia,

of undistinguished families

second families,

perhaps I should say.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars,

or sailed to an uncharted land,

or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

There are only two mistakes

one can make along the road

to truth; not going all

the way, and not starting.

Every day is a chance to reinvent yourself.

During my life,

I have had a few nightmares which happened to me

while I was wide awake.

One of them was

the National Republican Convention in San Francisco,

which produced the greatest disaster

the Republican Party has ever known

Nominee Barry Goldwater.

To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.