Who Quotes

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.

I'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think it's a huge responsibility. It's part of who I am. It does not define me.

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?

People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

We believe a renewed commitment to limited government will unshackle our economy and create millions of new jobs and opportunities for all people, of every background, to succeed and prosper. Under this approach, the spirit of initiative - not political clout - determines who succeeds.

I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock?

But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.

Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.