Hangout Quotes

I rememeber one time we were getting ready to go to South America

and everything was packed up and in the car ready to go and

I hid and I was crying because I really did not want to go,

I wanted to play.

I did not want to go.

You're never too old,

too wacky,

too wild,

to pick up a book and read to a child.

Thanksgiving just gets me

all warm and tingly and

all kinds of wonderful inside.

Friendship is the source

of the greatest pleasures,

and without friends even

the most agreeable pursuits

become tedious.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem.

It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving

an existing one.

Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

I used to be a baker,

but I couldn’t make enough dough.

Between being loved and being respected,

I have always believed respect is more important.

Obstacles don’t have to stop you.

If you run into a wall,

don’t turn around and give up.

Figure out how to climb it,

go through it,

or work around it.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

It is my desire,

in the office of a Christian minister,

to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart.

Having said this,

I have said all.

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.

Before I would hurt a child,

I would slit my wrists.

I’m not a person who likes to be told what to do.

Don’t be afraid to fail,

be afraid not to try.

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.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that

only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

The value of a dollar is social,

as it is created by society.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

Mistakes are always forgivable,

if one has the courage to admit them.