D.E. Stevenson Quotes

If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek.

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name.

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.

The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.

We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear.

It's that mind-heart connection that I believe compels us to not just be attentive to all the bright and dazzling things but also the dark and difficult things.

Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.

I'm going to go away on vacation, I'm going to try to get away from the phone, away from scripts. I think it's important to sit back and think about what you want

One need never be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter evenings.

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.

There is nothing but God's grace. We walk upon it; we breathe it; we live and die by it; it makes the nails and axles of the universe.

Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.

If you're just the person with power, exercising that power fearfully and angrily, you're going to be an operative of injustice and inequality.

No gains without pains.

Be what you are, and become what you are capable of becoming.

Lynching is an important aspect of racial history and racial inequality in America, because it was visible, it was so public, it was so dramatic, and it was so violent.

Blackbirds are the cellos of the deep farms.

Nothing like a little judicious levity.

It takes hard writing to make easy reading.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

A hungry man is not a free man.

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

The reality is that capital punishment in America is a lottery. It is a punishment that is shaped by the constraints of poverty, race, geography and local politics.

You have the Savior of the world on your side. If you seek His help and follow His directions, how can you fail?

The Saints are the Sinners who keep on trying.

He who slings mud generally loses ground.

You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.

The sea is as near as we come to another world.

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all.

If you love your community, then you need to be insisting on justice in all circumstances.

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

What are eight million dollars compared to the love of eight million Cubans?

Why do we want to kill all the broken people?