Persion Quotes

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

Life can only be understood backwards;

but it must be lived forwards.

I am persuaded,

you will permit me to observe,

that the path of true piety,

is so plain as to require,

but little political direction.

War

An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy,

to accomplish our will.

In my view of the present aspect of affairs,

there is no need of bloodshed and war.

There is no necessity for it.

I am not in favor of such a course,

and I may say in advance,

there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government.

The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

Don’t bend;

don’t water it down;

don’t try to make it logical;

don’t edit your own soul.

Presentation matters,

expression matters.

When we quarrel,

how we wish we had been blameless.

Books were my pass to personal freedom.

I learned to read at age three,

and soon discovered there was a whole world,

to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

You cannot have everything.

Where would you put it?

Many professors tell you that you'd be good at this or that,

but they don't always help you with that career path.

I am not a product of my circumstances.

I am a product of my decisions.

Life is too short to take everything seriously.

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey

and car keys to teenage boys.

Every setback is a setup for a comeback.

Choose to be optimistic,

it feels better.

Don’t set goals based on what you can do;

set them based on what you can become.

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector?

The taxidermist takes only your skin.

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.