Spped Quotes

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others,

and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.

Knowing is not enough;

we must apply.

Willing is not enough;

we must do.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God

who has endowed us with sense, reason,

and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing.

The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children,

and then sell them into interminable bondage,

with no other motive than that

which is furnished by dollars and cents,

is so much worse than the most depraved murderer

that he can never receive pardon at my hand.

No sanction can stand

against ignited minds.

Good is positive.

Evil is merely privative,

not absolute: it is like cold,

which is the privation of heat.

All evil is so much death or nonentity.

Benevolence is absolute and real.

So much benevolence as a man hath,

so much life hath he.

Keep your nose out the sky,

keep your heart to God,

and keep your face to the rising sun.

Never give up,

for that is just

the place and time

that the tide will turn.

I’d rather be hated for

who I am than loved for

who I am not.

I was saving the name of 'Geisel' for the Great American Novel.

I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell

you see, I have friends in both places.

Music has the power to heal and inspire.

'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas,

if not a dead lion for this work,

is at least a caged and toothless one.

How can he oppose the advances of slavery?

He don't care anything about it.

From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.

You don’t take a photograph,

you make it.

Deep down,

the young are lonelier than the old.

Things are never quite

as scary when you've

got a best friend.

Don’t be afraid to make mistakes;

they are part of growth.