Spped Quotes

He called the shit poop!

The people themselves,

and not their servants,

can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

We make the future sustainable

when we invest in the poor,

not when we insist on their suffering.

That I am not a member of any Christian church is true;

but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures,

and I have never spoken with

intentional disrespect of religion in general,

or of any denomination of Christians in particular.

Everything is a compromise.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is

the influence of good women.

I have met 18 million youth,

and each wants to be unique.

George Washington, as a boy,

was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth.

He could not even lie.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Truth is powerful and it prevails.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.

And if you can’t help them,

at least don’t hurt them.

Those are my principles,

and if you don’t like them…

well, I have others.

The grass is not always greener on the other side.

It’s greener where you water it.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man

who is able to think things out for himself.

Your art is your story;

tell it fearlessly.

The man of genius inspires us

with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

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.

Music is an honest reflection of who I am.

You have to fight for your place in history.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,

nothing is going to get better.

It's not.