Famous Quotes

We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.

I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.

Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age.

Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

No one will protect what they don't care about, and no one will care about what they have never experienced.

A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.

I plead with you--never, ever give up on hope, never doubt, never tire, and never become discouraged. Be not afraid.

The only person with whom you have to compare ourselves, is that you in the past. And the only per-son better you should be, this is who you are now.

Do not look back, No one knows how the world ever began. Do not fear the future, Nothing lasts forever. If you dwell on the past or future, You will miss the moment.

Have you ever sent a loved son on vacation, and had him returned to you in a pine box, so horribly battered and water-logged that someone needs to tell you this sickening sight is your son, lynched?

The Heavenly Father does not ask for golden vessels. He does not ask for silver vessels. God asks for yielded vessels.

I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.

What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see.

There was a time, when I blamed my companion if his religion did not resemble mine. Now, however, my heart accepts every form....Love alone is my religion.

Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.

Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.

Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.

Even if the skies were shorter than my knees, I would not kneel.

Be a voice not an echo.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion is a right.

I don't like a girl on social media, when you have an open inbox, answering questions from dudes left and right, every day. What's the point? It's like having your number all out.

You have to think it before you can do it. The mind is what makes it all possible

Ideas do not need weapons.

I don’t believe in courtship.It’s a waste of time. If I love the person, I’ll tell her right away. But for you, I’ll make an exception. Just love me now, and I’ll court you forever.

Be stupid, be dumb, be funny, if that's who you are. Don't try to be someone that society wants you to be, that's stupid. So be yourself.

If the reason why you're doing anything creative is to make a living, then you're doing it wrong

It took cancer to realize that being self-centered is not the way to live. The answer is to try and help others.

Even if I don't finish, we need others to continue. It's got to keep going.

The Toyota style is not to create results by working hard. It is a system that says there is no limit to people's creativity. People don't go to Toyota to 'work' they go there to 'think'.

The minute I start being afraid of what people might say is the minute I become useless to God.

Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself.

That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.

I'm icy, I'm icy. So icy, so icy.

It costs a hell of a lot more money to put somebody in jail than send them to the University of Virginia.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.

People don't have to believe in you for you to succeed. Just work hard, when you succeed, they will believe.

Don't get lost in your pain, know that one day your pain will become your cure.

I don’t care what you did yesterday. If you’re happy with that, you have bigger problems.

Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.

Play is the work of the child.

All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.

I'd rather be proud of what I am, rather than desperatly try to be something I'm really not; just to fit in.

Do few things but do them well, simple joys are holy.

The biggest risk is to take no risk at all

Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.