Archives - September 2003

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

There is no way to peace; peace is the way.

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.

War does not determine who is right --- only who is left.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

Where there is love there is life.

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.

Men always want to be a woman's first love --- women like to be a man's last romance.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky --- or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

All art is but imitation of nature.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.