Al David Quotes
Courage is ... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
Today's public education system is a failed monopoly: bureaucratic rigid and in unsteady control of dissatisfied captive markets.
Every man has a House of Lords in his own head. Fears prejudices misconceptions - those are the peers and they are hereditary.
In the end it may well be that Britain will be more honoured by the historians for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it.
If you have the will to win you have achieved half your success if you don't you have achieved half your failure.
We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back. A little boy was asked how he learned to skate. "By getting up every time I fell down " he answered.
No real friendship is ever made without an initial clashing which discloses the metal of each to each.
No statement about God is simply literally true. God is far more than can be measured described defined in ordinary language or pinned down to any particular happening.
Happiness ... loves to see men work. She loves sweat weariness self-sacrifice. She will not be found in the palaces but lurking in cornfields and factories and hovering over littered desks.
Ladies and gentlemen after what I've been through I am happy just to be wearing clothes that open in the front.
Judges are but men and are swayed like other men by vehement prejudices. This is corruption in reality give it whatever other name you please.
Their cause I plead - plead it in heart and mind A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind.
So when you're lonely or sad or bad or blue remember where laughter's hiding . . . it's hiding inside of YOU!
Do you know what the greatest test is? Do you still get excited about what you do when you get up in the morning?
The opportunities for enjoyment in your life are limitless. If you feel you are not experiencing enough joy you have only yourself to blame.
A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree if you agree with him he is a statesman.
Time spent on the knees in prayer will do more to remedy heart strain and nerve worry than anything else.
Men are created different they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.
All the discontented people I know are trying to be something they are not to do something they cannot do.
If your life is ever going to get better you'll have to take risks. There is simply no way you can grow without taking chances.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small steps.
If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card you don't have a clear idea.
Faith is not knowledge of what the mystery of the universe is but the conviction that there is a mystery and that it is greater than us.
The Holy Spirit . . . wants to flow through us and realize all these wonderful possibilities in the world - if we only open ourselves and allow it to happen.
