Hidni Quotes

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions

but to destroy the capacity to form any.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas.

I've only ever had one.

Talent is nothing without courage.

That all men are equal is a proposition which,

at ordinary times,

no sane individual has ever given his assent.

He who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God.

No valid plans for the future can be made by those

who have no capacity for living now.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling,

but in rising every time we fall.

Do not depend on others for your success;

build your own strength.

If you can somehow figure out how to have a calling,

you have hit the jackpot.

The most important thing to do

if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.

Music is freedom.

It allows me to express myself without limits.

Someone is sitting in the

shade today because someone

planted a tree a long time ago.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice,

you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks,

but in how it thinks.

We suffer from an incurable disease called hope.

Love, friendship and

respect do not unite

people as much as a

common hatred for

something.

A noble character is the highest possible attainment of humanity.

Success is walking

from failure to failure

with no loss of

enthusiasm.

I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days

three such days with you I could fill with more delight

than fifty common years could ever contain.

My first day in Chicago,

September 4 1983,

I set foot in this city,

and just walking down the street,

it was like roots,

like the motherland.

I knew I belonged here.