Identity Quotes

When we honestly ask ourselves

which person in our lives means the most to us,

we often find it is those who,

instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures,

have chosen rather to share our pain

and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

On Halloween,

the parents sent their kids out looking like me.

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

Water, taken in moderation,

cannot hurt anybody.

Failure and invention are inseparable twins.

You have to work hard to get your thinking

clean to make it simple.

Best of all is it to

preserve everything in a pure,

still heart, and let there be for

every pulse a thanksgiving,

and for every breath a song

All that is valuable in human society depends upon

the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

Men admire the man who can organize

their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

Your margin is my opportunity.

I don't know who I am,

but I know who I'm not.

You alone are enough.

The way I see it,

if you want the rainbow,

you gotta put up with the rain.

It is not my nature,

when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles

the oppression of tyranny to make

their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens;

but rather would I do all in my power to raise

the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

Never contract friendship

with a man that is not

better than thyself.

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by

every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap

let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges;

let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs;

let it be preached from the pulpit,

proclaimed in legislative halls,

and enforced in courts of justice.

I must admit,

I’m a little confused,

but I think I’ve got this whole baseball thing figured out.

Death is the solution to all problems. No man

no problem.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much;

if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.