People Some people are like wheelbarrows; useful only when pushed, and very easily upset. The time to stop talking is read more

People Some people are like wheelbarrows; useful only when pushed, and very easily upset. The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise
with other men's wisdom.

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise
with other men's wisdom.

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born read more

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. He can only get a vision of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and every appeal is a call to arms. If he fights he must fight, not one man, but a conspiracy. He is always at war with a civilization. On his side is proverbial philosophy, a galaxy of invisible saints and sages, and the half-developed consciousness and professions of everybody. Against him is the world, and every selfish passion in his own heart.

No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the
comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.

No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the
comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I
looked into the soul of the boy read more

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I
looked into the soul of the boy next to me.

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been read more

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans -- born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.

One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.

Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back
to the pleasant fact that there are read more

Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back
to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

Life itself can't give you joy, unless you really will it. Life just gives you time and space, it's upto read more

Life itself can't give you joy, unless you really will it. Life just gives you time and space, it's upto you to fill it.