Persion Quotes

We are going to build a wall.

I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good,

then you should go do something else wonderful.

Absence and death are the same

only that in death there is no suffering.

My wife and I were happy for 20 years.

Then we met.

It is difficult to be a man in the modern world

without being aware of the absurdity of it all.

Happiness is not something ready made.

It comes from your own actions.

Love is the ultimate law of evolution.

Second is the first to lose.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself,

or to get all the credit for doing it.

We are symbols,

and inhabit symbols.

War

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

to accomplish our will.

Speed is nothing without control.

You have to believe in yourself and never

let anyone tell you who you are.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Use only that which works.

Ninety nine percent of the failures

come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

Whether it be true or not,

I can say, for one, that I have no other

so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow

men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

How far I shall succeed in gratifying

this ambition is yet to be developed.

We can't help everyone,

but everyone can

help someone.

The banality of evil.

The alternate domination of one faction over another,

sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension,

which in different ages and countries has perpetrated

the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.

But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.