Sunday, December 14, 2025

Our responsibility is no longer to acquire, but to BE.

We must patiently practice every day.

The notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8 years old, somehow reflects on me and my values doesn't make much sense.

Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself.

Don't dream your life, but live your dream

What is commonly called friendship is only a little more honor among rogues.

Integration is the method toward obtaining that goal. And what he Negro leader has done is gotten himself wrapped up in the method and has forgotten what the goal is.

The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.

...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.

We must be prepared to pay a price for freedom, for no price that is ever asked for it is half the cost of doing without it.

Children's as good as 'rithmetic to set you findin' out things.

Retreat itself is often a plan of resistance and may be a precursor of great bravery and sacrifice. Every retreat is not cowardice which implies fear to die.

I know I could never forgive myself if I elected to live without humane purpose, without trying to help the poor and unfortunate, without recognizing that perhaps the purest joy in life comes with trying to help others.

If you feed your mind as often as you feed your stomach, then you'll never have to worry about feeding your stomach or a roof over your head or clothes on your back.

Most men die at age 25, but aren't buried until 70.

There is two types of Larceny, Petty and Grand. They are supposed to be the same in the eyes of the law, but judges always put a little extra on you for Petty, which is kind of a fine for stupidness.

Good women are no fun... The only good woman I can recall in history was Betsy Ross. And all she ever made was a flag.

there is nothing bad to fear; once you have crossed that threshold, all is well. Another world, and you do not have to speak

You have been in every way all that anyone could be.... If anybody could have saved me it would have been you.

A productive and happy life is not something you find; it is something you make.

The larger the slice taken by government, the smaller the cake available for everyone.

There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.... I'm the responsible officer of the Government.

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

Our country, customs, laws, our ambitions, and our notions of fit and fair-all these we never made; we found them ready-made; we but quote from them. What would remain to me if this art of appropriation were derogatory to genius? Every one of my writings has been furnished to me by a thousand different persons, a thousand things; wise and foolish have brought me, without suspecting it, the offering of their thoughts, faculties, and experience. My work is an aggregation of beings taken from the whole of nature. It bears the name of Goethe.

When it looks impossible and you are ready to quit, victory is near!