Miscellaneous Quotes

• Speed provides the one great modern pleasure.

• If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru' narrow chinks of his cavern.

• It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

• Boldness be my friend.

• Everyone has talent; what is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

• Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been, and there you long to return.

• The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

• People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.

• People only see what they are prepared to see.

• Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.

• Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism.

• I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.

• 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

• A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

• You know what the fellow said: In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michaelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love--they had five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.

• The most depraved type of being is that without purpose.

• In the depths of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

• Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.

• Man's nature is not always to advance; it has its advances and retreats.

• Man's nature is not always to advance; it has its advances and retreats.

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