Meditation Quotes

He who molds the public sentiment...

makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

I like living.

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable,

racked with sorrow;

but through it all I still know quite certainly

that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Every life has equal value.

I hold that while man exists,

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

but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have.

Let us economize it.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it,

move with it, and join the dance.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man,

I spend one third of my time thinking about

myself and what I am going to say and two

thirds about him and what he is going to say.

Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as

spending our lives running from it.

A man's friendships

are one of the best

measures of his worth.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity.

Without it,

no real success is possible.

Medical costs are of concern,

both in developing and developed countries.

With our thoughts,

we make the world.

We are wiser than we know.

Let us not be too particular;

it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

You only learn who has been swimming naked

when the tide goes out.

It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn

that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy

, working at ten dollars per month)

have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth,

and aristocratic family distinction.

If you don't take risks,

you'll never do anything.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

I am a slow walker,

but I never walk back.

Maintain a firm grasp of the obvious at all times.