Archives - February 2010

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its
prediction and then disappears.

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in
fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your
mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the
here and now?

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that
we must begin, not at the top.

When you learn, teach. When you get, give.

This being Black History Month, I would like to ask people to
celebrate the similarities and not focus on the differences between
people of color and not of color.

Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another
person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.

Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of
the most difficult challenges I face.

There's two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the
hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. If the result is contrary
to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in
overalls and looks like work.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in
unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.

No man is good enough to govern any woman without her
consent.

If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life
moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you to
go on in spite of all. And so today I still have a dream.

Confusion is always the most honest response.

I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.

If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in; first,
you get accused of things you never did, and later, credited for
virtues you never had.

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what
I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an
honest man.

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change
everything --- or nothing.

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some
men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The
struggles within yourself --- the invisible, inevitable battles
inside all of us --- that's where it's at.

Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can
lose.

The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the
universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next
we see in them the reflection of the divine image.