Friend Quotes

You can build your own things

that other people can use.

We are part of this universe;

we are in this universe,

but perhaps more important than both of those facts,

is that the universe is in us.

I will honor Christmas

in my heart, and

try to keep it

all the year.

To be the man,

you’ve got to beat the man!

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes

its reward to the man who loves his work.

But...

I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward,

in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

I have always hated slavery, I think,

as much as any abolitionist.

I have been an Old Line Whig.

I have always hated it,

but I have always been quiet about it until

this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.

Children must be taught how to think,

not what to think.

I want young people to know it’s okay to be different.

Being busy does not always mean real work.

The object of all work is production or accomplishment

and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system,

planning, intelligence, and honest purpose,

as well as perspiration.

Seeming to do is not doing.

It is difficult to be a man in the modern world

without being aware of the absurdity of it all.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president...

is morally treasonable to the American public.

You have to be brave enough to be bad at something new.

My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana,

in my eighth year... It was a wild region,

with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods.

There I grew up... Of course when I came of age,

I did not know much.

Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher...

but that was all.

Justice without force is powerless;

force without justice is tyrannical.

With the past,

I have nothing to do;

nor with the future.

I live now.

When I’m good,

I’m very good.

But when I’m bad,

I’m better.

The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

Successful investing takes time,

discipline,

and patience.

For me,

life is continuously being hungry.

The meaning of life is not simply to exist,

to survive, but to move ahead,

to go up,

to achieve,

to conquer.