Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
The most you get is what you ask for.
No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.
You know I don’t wanna come on ungrateful, but that warren report, you know as well as me, just didn’t make it. You know, like they might as well have asked some banana salesman from des moines, who was up in toronto on the big day, if he saw anyone around looking suspicious…
You gotta have a dream. If you don’t have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?
There is no reality, only perception.
Unless you know who you are, you will always be vulnerable to what people say.
You’re never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.
A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man’s heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.
Coaching your wife is like trying to baptize a cat.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
What gives life its value you can find – and lose. But never posess. This holds good above all for “the Truth about Life.
I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within – in front of the sea.
Do all the other things, the ambitious things-travel, get rich, get famous, innovate, lead, fall in love, make and lose fortunes…but as you do, to the extent that you can, err in the direction of kindness.
What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
