Hangout Quotes

It usually takes me more than three weeks to

prepare a good impromptu speech.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

The world is all gates,

all opportunities,

strings of tension waiting to be struck.

One of the more difficult tasks for me as president

was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment

awarded by courts... to my surprise...

almost all cases which were pending had a social

and economic bias.

It isn't until you come to a spiritual,

understanding of who you are,

not necessarily a religious feeling,

but deep down, the spirit within,

that you can begin to take control.

All, everything that I understand,

I understand only because I love.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Only two things are infinite,

the universe and human stupidity,

and I'm not sure about the former.

Laugh,

and the world laughs with you;

weep,

and you weep alone.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

I was only trying to do what I thought was right,

according to my upbringing and my heart.

I know of no single formula for success.

But over the years,

I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal.

No valid plans for the future can be made by those

who have no capacity for living now.

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things.

Strive on with diligence.

I love to travel,

but hate to arrive.

Everything was so new

the whole idea of going into space was new and daring.

There were no textbooks,

so we had to write them.

Reading about nature is fine,

but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully,

he can learn more than what is in books,

for they speak with the voice of God.

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.