Who Quotes

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don't, who will?

I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Four years ago, I promised to end the war in Iraq. We did. I promised to refocus on the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11. We have. We've blunted the Taliban's momentum in Afghanistan, and in 2014, our longest war will be over. A new tower rises above the New York skyline, al Qaeda is on the path to defeat, and Osama bin Laden is dead.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

Who seeks shall find.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.

I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.

I just don't want to die alone, that's all. That's not too much to ask for, is it It would be nice to have someone care about me, for who I am, not about my wallet.

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.