Classic Quotes Collection

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

Pay no mind to those who talk behind your back, it simply means that you are two steps ahead.

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

My lyrics say I have morals, I have confidence, I have weaknesses, I have strong points, that I am a human being.

I am glad I made the late race. It gave me a hearing on the great and durable question of the age, which I could have had in no other way.

If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.

I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

A nation with a strong base in science and technology is a nation with a strong backbone.

The best revenge is massive success.

The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.

Frame your mind to mirth and merriment which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.

Everybody's at war with different things...I'm at war with my own heart sometimes.

First come the innovators, then come the imitators, then come the idiots.

Nothing that's good works by itself, you've got to make the damn thing work.

People have to follow their hearts, and if their hearts lead them to Wal-Mart, so be it.

Learn Everything that is Good from Others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others.

Those minutes that I'm on stage are the best! Being there and looking at the crowd and seeing their faces, hearing them sing the positive words from the songs.