Spped Quotes

The best portion of a good man’s life: his little, nameless,

unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

Life is too short to dwell on the past.

I have said a hundred times,

and I have no inclination to take it back,

that I believe there is no right,

and ought to be no inclination in the people

of the free States to enter into the slave States,

and to interfere with the question of slavery at all.

I have said that always.

I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it.

I am proud of the fact

that I never invented weapons to kill.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required

within five years to learn English or leave the country.

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

Day 2 is stasis.

Followed by irrelevance.

Followed by excruciating,

painful decline.

Followed by death.

And that is why it is always Day 1.

A brave heart may be trusted to do its best.

Flowers are the sweetest

things God ever made and

forgot to put a soul into.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

After silence, that which comes

nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Christmas waves a magic

wand over this world,

and behold, everything is

softer and more beautiful.

Regarding marriage,

it somehow,

it didn't happen.

One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues,

but the parent of all others.

Truth is stranger than fiction

fiction, but it is because

Fiction is obliged to

stick to possibilities;

Truth isn't

We aim above the mark

to hit the mark

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.