Ralation Quotes

Over the years,

I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly;

to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher

in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.

Success is about effort,

not luck.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Better than a thousand hollow words is

one word that brings peace.

You can’t let praise or criticism get to you.

It’s a weakness to get caught up in either one.

When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball,

I can only marvel at the many black players

who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because

they had nowhere else to go.

Books are the mirrors of the soul.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

Every morning that I wake up and I'm breathing I can feel it and take a moment to say, you know Thank God I'm alive for another day.

It was the experience of mystery

even if mixed with fear

that engendered religion.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly,

and I did.

I said I didn't know.

Learn from yesterday live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

When we assumed the Soldier,

we did not lay aside the Citizen.

Sometimes

The most positive thing

You can be in a Boring society

Is absolutely negative

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service,

than the neglect of discipline;

for that discipline,

more than numbers,

gives one army,

the superiority over another.

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

Creativity is just connecting things.

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress;

therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken

until after they shall have deliberated

upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to

hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time

and still retain the ability to function.

I believe this government cannot endure permanently,

half slave and half free.