Identity Quotes

Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very';

your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

When you're the most successful person in your family,

in your neighborhood,

and in your town,

everybody thinks you're the First National Bank,

and you have to figure out for yourself where those boundaries are.

If the stars should appear but one

night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

If you give people tools,

and they use their natural abilities and curiosity,

they will develop things…

Technology is nothing.

What's important is that you have a faith in people,

that they're basically good and smart.

What you are comes to you.

Life is not a spectator sport.

If you're going to spend

your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on,

in my opinion you're wasting your life.

Upon the subjects of which I have treated,

I have spoken as I have thought.

I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but,

holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be

right than at all times to be wrong,

so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous,

I shall be ready to renounce them.

A problem well stated is a problem half solved.

I’d rather regret the risks that didn’t work out than

the chances I didn’t take at all.

When I do good I feel good,

when I do bad I feel bad,

and that's my religion.

When red haired people are

above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.

Always be yourself,

express yourself,

have faith in yourself.

Dreams aren’t just for sleeping.

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster

when we have lost our way.

There is no security on this earth;

there is only opportunity.

Physics is like sex: sure,

it may give some practical results,

but that’s not why we do it.

Truth is like the sun.

You can shut it out

for a time, but it

ain't goin' away.

Vulnerability is the core of art.

All the armies of Europe,

Asia and Africa combined,

with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted)

in their military chest;

with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force,

take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge,

in a trial of a thousand years.