Hangout Quotes

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions

which differ from the prejudices of their social environment.

Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction.

Fiction has to make sense.

If I have seen further,

it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.

And if you can’t help them,

at least don’t hurt them.

Laugh,

and the world laughs with you;

weep,

and you weep alone.

What is a weed?

A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.

Use your platform to speak for those who cannot.

To hell with circumstances;

I create opportunities.

Only two things are infinite,

the universe and human stupidity,

and I'm not sure about the former.

You see,

God helps only people who work hard.

That principle is very clear.

I don't believe you

have to be better

than everybody else.

I believe you have

to be better than

you ever thought

you could be.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Far better is it to dare mighty things,

to win glorious triumphs,

even though checkered by failure...

than to rank with those poor spirits

who neither enjoy nor suffer much,

because they live in a gray twilight

that knows not victory nor defeat.

I understand a ship to be made for the carrying

and preservation of the cargo,

and so long as the ship can be saved, with the cargo,

it should never be abandoned.

This Union likewise should never be abandoned unless

it fails and the possibility of its preservation shall cease to exist,

without throwing passengers and cargo overboard.

Change is never easy,

but it is necessary.

The Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute accepts people of any race.

We don't discriminate against anyone.

We teach people to reach their highest potential.

I set examples by the way I lead my life.

Innovation has nothing to do with

how many R&D dollars you have.

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.