Identity Quotes

I stay out of politics because

if I begin thinking too much about politics,

I'll probably... drop writing children's books

and become a political cartoonist again.

I don't like to lose.

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy,

that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

Things do not happen.

Things are made to happen.

Being elected to Congress,

though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it,

has not pleased me as much as I expected.

I'm going to make you a star,

but you have to do the work.

Ideas are like fish.

If you want to catch little fish,

you can stay in the shallow water.

But if you want to catch the big fish,

you’ve got to go deeper.

Faith and reason are like two wings on

which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth.

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.

The more a thing tends to be permanent,

the more it tends to be lifeless.

Fashion fades,

only style remains the same.

I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something.

Don’t wait for good things to happen to you.

In order to succeed,

we must first believe that we can

Nikos Kazantzakis

Education begins the gentleman,

but reading, good company,

and reflection must finish him.

I cannot possibly believe that

I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry,

inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed,

denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.

Wine is sunlight,

held together by water.

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Books are the mirrors of the soul.