Here is a list of some favorite quotes of mine.
“Try not. Do or do not, there is no try.”
“It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. Serve and thou shall be served.”
“Real strength is not just a condition of one’s muscle, but a tenderness in one’s spirit.”
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
“The best things in life aren’t things.”
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
“The things we know best are the things we haven’t been taught.”
“The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.”
“Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.”
“The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”
“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings – words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.”
“I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they’d never expect it.”
“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.”
“Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.”
“I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”
“An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.”
“The word ‘politics’ is derived from the word ‘poly’, meaning ‘many’, and the word ‘ticks’, meaning ‘blood sucking parasites’.”
“The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.”
“If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we’d be too simple to understand it.”
“Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.”
“In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it”.
“Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.”
“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.”
“Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last forever!”
“Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.”
“We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.”
“Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.”
“When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.”
“The proper function of man is to live – not to exist.”
“Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”
“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.”
“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.”
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”
“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”
“The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.”
“If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.”
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
“A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.”
“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.”
“I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.”
“If you want truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between “for” and “against” is the mind’s worst disease.”
“Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.”
