Hangout Quotes

My great concern is not whether you have failed,

but whether you are content with your failure.

You own everything that happened to you.

Tell your stories.

If people wanted you to write warmly about them,

they should have behaved better.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual,

and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern

with no superhuman authority behind it.

I thank God for my failures

Maybe not at the time but

after some reflection.

I never feel like a failure

just because something

I tried has failed.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants,

and to serve them one's self?

The right word may be effective,

but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

I went to a fight the other night,

and a hockey game broke out.

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is

the only guardian of true liberty.

Great things are brought to pass by small and simple means.

When you have got an elephant by

the hind legs and he is trying to run away,

it's best to let him run.

It was the best of times,

it was the worst of times.

I can only say that there is not a man

living who wishes more sincerely than I do,

to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it

but there is only one proper and effectual mode by

which it can be accomplished,

and that is by Legislative authority: and this,

as far as my suffrage will go, shall never be wanting.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

I do not expect the Union to be dissolved

I do not expect the house to fall

but I do expect it will cease to be divided.

It will become all one thing,

or all the other.

I am proud of the fact

that I never invented weapons to kill.

Technological progress has merely provided us with

more efficient means for going backwards.

He called the shit poop!

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself,

or to get all the credit for doing it.

Optimism is often dismissed as false hope,

but it drives innovation.

Simplicity is the glory of expression.