Will Quotes

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

Children today will grow up taking for granted that an African-American or a woman can, yes, become the president of the United States.

If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are. Always remember that you often find outstanding people among those you don't particularly like.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination.

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

Sometimes you trust someone who turns out not to be honest. There are a lot of things that happen in life that don't turn out the way you're given the impression that they will. And I think that's all kind of a con. But I think we've probably all been hurt.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.

I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins.

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.