I’ve always said that in politics, your enemies can’t hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather [...]
Whatever the mind of man can conceive, it can achieve.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
The human body is the [...]
Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.
You can have power over people as long as you don’t take everything away from them. [...]
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.
A true man does not need to romance a different girl every night, a true man romances the same girl for the [...]
Beginnings are scary. Endings are usually sad, but it’s the middle that counts the most.
Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.
However long the night, the dawn will break.
Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.
They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
For all sad [...]
A friend is one of the nicest things to have, and one of the best things to be.
Friendship isn’t a big thing, it’s a million little things.
No day is so bad that it can’t be fixed with a nap.
Grandchildren are God’s way of compensating us for growing old.
I can resist everything except temptation.
Love is the [...]
They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.
Self-respect: The secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
No sacrifice short of individual liberty, individual self-respect, and individual enterprise is too great [...]
Silence implies consent.
Silence is more musical than any song.
The innocent is the person who explains nothing.
Silence is the genius of fools and one of the virtues of the wise.
Silence will save me from being wrong, but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
Be silent, or speak something worth hearing.
Silence is one [...]
To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.
People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one.
Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
Don’t try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
Sleep [...]
Smile don’t frown Look up don’t look down Believe in yourself Don’t let yourself go Just be who you are And let your live flow.
I’m not a fighter. I usually smile and then go into my room and cry my eyes out.
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
A smile confuses [...]
A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.
Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.
Society often forgives the criminal; it [...]
Feeling sorry for yourself, and you present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road… unless you fail to make the turn.
Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud [...]
The soul’s emphasis is always right.
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
The soul never thinks without a picture.
Move to the rhythm of your soul and you’ll never miss a beat.
A little body often harbors a great soul.
Confession is [...]
It’s so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don’t say it.
A lot of beautiful people are stupid. There’s a tremendous amount of idiots who look so good. It’s frightening.
A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected [...]
Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket.
Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time.
Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.
The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.
A [...]
It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone and a day to love someone but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.
At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage
The fate of love is that [...]
Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.
Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.
Sympathy gives immediate shelter to grief.
His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be.
Sympathy is the mother heart of humanity.
The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.
To be in one’s own heart in [...]
I’m the person your mother warned you about.
No sense in being pessimistic It wouldn’t work anyway.
We should forgive our enemies, but only after they’ve been taken out and shot.
Never kick a man unless he’s down.
There is intelligent life on Earth, but I’m just visiting.
Work is the curse of the drinking class.
The secret of success is [...]
Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you twenty cents?
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
The politicians say “we” can’t afford a tax cut. Maybe we can’t afford the politicians.
Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody’s [...]
I could have been a doctor, but there were too many good shows on TV.
All television is children’s television.
If it weren’t for electricity we’d all be watching television by candlelight.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
I won’t eat anything that has intelligent life, [...]
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
Every time we remember to say “thank you”, we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.
I would thank you from the bottom of my heart, but for you my heart has no bottom.
The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who [...]
A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.
Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
A man who doesn’t trust himself can never really trust anyone else.
Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.
When I’m trusting and being myself… everything [...]
We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win.
In ourselves are triumph and defeat.
Individual glory is insignificant when compared to achieving victory as a team.
Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
Victory and defeat are each of [...]
Always be a first rate version of your self instead of a second rate version of someone else.
Knowledge talks, wisdom listens.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me !
Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.
Don’t let your victories go to your head, or your failures go to your [...]
As long as you can still be dissapointed, you are still young.
No man knows he is young while he is young.
It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.
Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot .
Young men soon give and [...]