Hangout Quotes

I find television very educating.

Every time somebody turns on the set,

I go into the other room and read a book.

I hold that while man exists,

it is his duty to improve not only his own condition,

but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words!

His real life is led in his head,

and is known to none but himself.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems,

in my opinion,

to characterize our age.

Two roads diverged in a wood,

and I—I took the one less traveled by,

and that has made all the difference.

Life is too short to be living somebody else’s dream.

Your worth consists in what you are

and not in what you have.

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

Creativity is the key to

success in the future, and

primary education is where

teachers can bring creativity

in children at that level.

Government of the people,

by the people,

for the people,

shall not perish from the Earth.

If the great American people will only keep their temper,

on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end,

and the question which now distracts the country

will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of

like character which have originated in this government

have been adjusted.

But friendship is

the breathing rose,

with sweets in every fold.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley can you ever know

how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

For somehow this is tyranny’s disease: to trust no friends.

A man watches his pear tree day after day,

impatient for the ripening of the fruit.

Let him attempt to force the process,

and he may spoil both fruit and tree.

But let him patiently wait,

and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

Since new developments are the products of a creative mind,

we must therefore stimulate and encourage

that type of mind in every way possible.

We work backwards from the customer’s needs.

Preachers in pulpits talked about

what a great message is in the book.

No matter what you do,

somebody always imputes meaning into your books.

Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon

realize that space is being created in your life

for something new to emerge.