Own Quotes

My problem was my inability to spend much time at home.

I thought my family was secure,

so I went running around everyplace else.

I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids

than I did my own.

The black press, some liberal sportswriters,

and even a few politicians were banging away

at those Jim Crow barriers in baseball.

I never expected the walls to come tumbling down in my lifetime.

During my life,

I have had a few nightmares which happened to me

while I was wide awake.

One of them was

the National Republican Convention in San Francisco,

which produced the greatest disaster

the Republican Party has ever known

Nominee Barry Goldwater.

I had no future with the Dodgers,

because I was too closely identified with Branch Rickey.

After the club was taken over by Walter O'Malley,

you couldn't even mention Mr.

Rickey's name in front of him.

I considered Mr. Rickey

the greatest human being I had ever known.

Deep down,

the young are lonelier than the old.

Once again, we come to

the Holiday Season,

a deeply religious time

that each of us observes,

in his own way,

by going to the

mall of his choice.

Every man has his own courage,

and is betrayed because he seeks in himself

the courage of other persons.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize

the extent of your own ignorance.

Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

Real change never occurs from the top down;

it always occurs from the bottom up.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance;

and a people who mean to be their own governors

must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

I perhaps ought to say that individually

I never was much interested in the Texas question.

I never could see much good to come of annexation,

inasmuch as they were already

a free republican people on our own model.

Riches can all be lost,

but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled,

and it will bring you happiness again,

as long as you live.

Nothing is at last sacred but

the integrity of your own mind.

Don’t be afraid to go a little different and create your own world.

We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves.

As long as a man stands in his own way,

everything seems to be in his way.

The people themselves,

and not their servants,

can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

Absorb what is useful,

discard what is not,

add what is uniquely your own.

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.