Us Quotes

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.

We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.

One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.

A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.

Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.

If God had wanted us to be concerned for the plight of the toads, he would have made them cute and furry.

Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.

It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

Before the math and the momentum overwhelm us all, we are going to solve this nation's economic problems. And I'm going to level with you: We don't have that much time. But if we are serious, and smart, and we lead, we can do this.

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

What goes on in Europe concerns us greatly because, if Europe comes apart, the E.U. comes apart, then you're going to have enormous impact on America, that's a very big trading partner of ours, and people own securities around the world in this day and age.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.