Hangout Quotes

Set your heart on doing good.

Do it over and over again.

You have to believe in yourself and never

let anyone tell you who you are.

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

I cannot salute the flag;

I know that I am a black man in a white world.

In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919,

I know that I never had it made.

Life is complicated.

Politics is complicated.

But sometimes you just have to take a leap of faith.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes

liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere.

Destroy this spirit and you have planted

the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

I'm black,

I don't feel burdened by it and,

I don't think it's a huge responsibility,

It's part of who I am,

It does not define me.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain

what I consider the most enviable of all titles,

the character of an honest man.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered;

the point is to discover them.

Life is like riding a bicycle.

To keep your balance,

you must keep moving.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

Instructions for living a life: Pay attention.

Be astonished.

Tell about it.

My philosophy is: not only do we have a right to be ourselves,

we have an obligation to be ourselves.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,

whose presence calls forth your best

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose.

It cannot have both.

Only one thing is impossible for God:

To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

In preparing for battle,

I have always found that plans are useless,

but planning is indispensable.