Hangout Quotes

The successful warrior is the average man,

with laser

like focus.

Friends and good manners

will carry you

where money won't go.

Why are we,

as a nation so obsessed

with foreign things?

Is it a legacy of

our colonial years?

We want foreign television sets.

We want foreign shirts.

We want foreign technology.

Why this obsession with

everything imported?

Great organizations demand

a high level of commitment by the people involved.

The purpose of education is to make good human beings

with skill and expertise...

Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.

Music heals the pain words can’t touch.

The things I want to know are in books;

my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

Reading, after a certain age,

diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits.

Any man who reads too much

and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another,

but let him work diligently and build one for himself,

thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe

from violence when built.

Education is the key to unlock

the golden door of freedom.

The world is a book,

and those who do not travel read only one page.

Don't be trapped by dogma.

To the best of my judgment, I have labored for,

and not against, the Union.

As I have not felt, so I have not expressed

any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren.

I have constantly declared,

as I really believed, the only difference between

them and us is the difference of circumstances.

I believe in the power of music to change hearts and minds.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means

that there has been effort stored up in the past.

Change is necessary for progress.

The only thing you have in your life is time.

Lock up your libraries if you like;

but there is no gate,

no lock,

no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

It is more shameful to

distrust our friends than

to be deceived by them.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.