Daily Quote Archives

“You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.”

“Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are.”

“That evening train was rollin',
The hummin' of its wheels,
My eyes they saw a better day
As I looked across the fields.

Trails of troubles,
Roads of battles,
Paths of victory,
We shall walk.”

“We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.”

“To waste, to destroy, our natural resources,
to skin and exhaust the land instead of
using it so as to increase its usefulness,
will result in undermining, in the days of our children, the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified...”

“You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!”

“Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.”

“Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.”

“The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.”

“To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.”

“Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.”

“To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.”

“Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.”

“The country is in some trouble, because the media, which is supposed to provide a check and balance on government, has decided to stop doing that as a collective entity.”

“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”

“The signs are everywhere
You've left it for somebody other than you
To be the one to care
You're lost inside your houses
There's no time to find you now”

“Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-- particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.”

“There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.”

“As we listened one last time
and we watched with one last look,
spellbound and swallowed 'til the tolling ended.
Tolling for the aching ones
whose wounds cannot be nursed.
For the countless confused, accused, misused, strung-out ones and worse.
And for every hung-up person
in the whole wide universe,
And we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.”

“I been meek
And hard like an oak
I seen pretty people disappear like smoke.
Friends will arrive, friends will disappear,
If you want me, honey baby,
I'll be here.”

“It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.”

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”

“I hear the ancient footsteps
like the motion of the sea.
Sometimes I turn, there's someone there,
other times it's only me.
I am hanging in the balance
of the reality of man,
like every sparrow falling,
like every grain of sand.”

“Energy and persistence conquer all things.”

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”

“Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. ... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”

“The citizen who sees his society's democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry out is not a patriot but a traitor.”

“Never should have had to try so hard
To make a love work out, I guess
I don't know what love has got to do with happiness
But the times when we were happy
Were the times we never tried”

“Let us turn our thoughts today
To Martin Luther King
And recognize that there are ties between us
All men and women
Living on the Earth
Ties of hope and love
Sister and brotherhood”