Daily Quote Archives

“When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can’t live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed.”

“Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.”

“A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.”

“I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up.”

“The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.”

“Everything matters. Time is precious.”

“I‘m not entangled in shaping my work according to other people’s views of how I should have done it.”

“What‘s right and good doesn’t come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it — as if the cause depends on you, because it does.”

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”

“Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”

“You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.”

“I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving he can outwit nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.”

“An honest man’s pillow is his peace of mind.”

“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love — that is the soul of genius.”

“Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.”