Miscellaneous Quotes

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead.

More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.

There is nothing so stable as change.

Home is where you come when you run out of places.

Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need to know of hell.

History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.

History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

Every exit is an entry somewhere.

We all wish to be judged by our peers, by the men 'after our own heart.' Only they really know our mind and only they judge it by standards we fully acknowledge. Theirs is the praise we really covet and the blame we really dread. The little pockets of early Chrstians survived because they cared exclusively for the love of 'the bretheren' and stopped their ears to the opinion of the Pagan society around them. But a circle of criminals, cranks, or perverts survives in just the same way; by becoming deaf to the opinion of the outer world, by discounting it as the chatter of outsiders who 'don't understand,' of the 'conventional,' the 'bourgeois,' the 'Establishment,' of prigs, prudes, and humbugs.

Were it possible for us to wait for ourselves to come into the room, not many of us would find our hearts breaking into flower as we heard the door handle turn.

I figure wherever I am, that's the place to be.

Every act and event is the inevitable result of prior acts and events and is independent of human will.

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

I don't like to share my personal life...it wouldn't be personal if I shared it.

I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.