Us Quotes

What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

Our enemies can deal a blow to us any time they wish. They did not wait for permission to do this. They do not deal a blow with prior notice. They do not take action because they can't.

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

Very few of us are what we seem.

Let's stop big government energy mandates like cap-and-trade, and instead trust the American innovator to make us energy independent.

Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it.

Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism.

Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.

Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real' was at risk, what would you do? You'd live a gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life. You know you would. That's what the ghosts want us to do - all the exciting things they no longer can.

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.

When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.