Cecil Baxter

It’s so much easier to tell people what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear.

If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

It’s not for me. I tried human flesh and it’s too salty for my taste.

We are each a figment of our own imagination.

Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

You can’t put feathers on a dog and call it a chicken!

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

Common sense needs to be more common.

I can visualize the time when almost every family will have a small plane in their back yard.

You never miss what you’ve never had. I never had any other life. I didn’t know any other life.

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

When you get to the top, don’t forget to send the elevator down for the next guy.

When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.