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Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.
Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.
About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
Getting fired is nature’s way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
Never confuse movement with action.
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: ‘Whose?’
In the end, everything is a gag.
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
Anyone who uses the phrase ‘easy as taking candy from a baby’ has never tried taking candy from a baby.
Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
Only the mediocre are always at their best.
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall — think of it, ALWAYS.
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
We must become the change we want to see.
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.
Fear is not a disease of the body; fear kills the soul.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.
Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.
Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.
Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.
Education is the art of making man ethical.
The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.
The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.
Character is what you have left when you’ve lost everything you can lose.
There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there’s only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there’s no reason why you shouldn’t have a fairly good time.
Oh, you hate your job? Why didn’t you say so? There’s a support group for that. It’s called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.
Nature and Nature’s laws lay hid in night:
God said, “Let Newton be!” and all was light.
If women ruled the world there would be no wars. Just a bunch of jealous countries not talking to each other!
Like it or not, we cannot escape universal brotherhood. We all love each other, and the lie is the kiss we exchange.
When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It’s a whole different way of thinking.
Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.
Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.
Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
Architecture begins where engineering ends.
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.