Who Quotes

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them.

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.

A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.

Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.

A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

I speak my mind. If it offends some people, well, there's not much I can do about that. But I'm going to be honest. I'm going to continue to speak my mind, and that's who I am.

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.

I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.