I am so grateful for my troubles. As I reflect back on my life, I have come to realize that my greatest triumphs have been born of my greatest troubles.
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
Adlai Stevenson
It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches.
The relationship of the toastmaster to the speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
I would rather be guilty of talking over a person's head than behind his back.
On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.
Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations--great or small--to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.
Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
Robert Louis Stevenson
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive.
There is no duty we so much underrated as the duty of being happy.
There is but one art, to omit.
A friend is a present you give to yourself.
No man is useless while he has a friend.
The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. And a man who has a few friends, or one who has a dozen (if there be any one so wealthy on this earth), cannot forget on how precarious a base his happiness reposes; and how by a stroke or two of fate --a death, a few light words, a piece of stamped paper, a woman's bright eyes --he may be left, in a month, destitute of all.
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.
If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
Source Unknown
Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.
No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.
The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.
Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.
If you see ninety-nine people running one way and three going the opposite, don't be too quick to join the majority.
Junk is something you keep for years and then throw out two weeks before you need it.
Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life.
By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
Maturity is the time of life when, if you had the time, you'd have the time of your life.
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