Success.life Quotes

Physics is like sex: sure,

it may give some practical results,

but that’s not why we do it.

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep,

one must above all be a sheep oneself.

There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage,

than the promotion of science and literature.

Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

Don’t Panic.

Perfection is not attainable,

but if we chase perfection,

we can catch excellence.

One of the more difficult tasks for me as president

was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment

awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases

which were pending had a social and economic bias.

The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks,

but in how it thinks.

My best friend is

the one who brings

out the best in me.

We can’t help everyone,

but everyone can help someone.

Our freedoms are worth defending every day.

The heavens and the earth,

the sun and the moon,

the stars and the planets,

all are in us.

It is my desire,

in the office of a Christian minister,

to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart.

Having said this,

I have said all.

Grief can take care if itself,

but to get the full value of a joy

you must have somebody to divide it with.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank

and file has already earned my contempt.

He has been given a large brain by mistake,

since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

My parents were both born in Virginia,

of undistinguished families

second families,

perhaps I should say.

Every spirit makes its house,

and we can give a shrewd guess,

from the house to the inhabitant.

I worked in a pet store and people would ask

how big I would get.

Buy the ticket,

take the ride.

Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it

and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief

that it is in course of ultimate extinction,

or its advocates will push it forward,

till it shall become alike lawful in all the States old as well as new

North as well as South.