Celebrity Quotes

America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support system from this country who-people grieving along with us.

After September 11, I got to understand a little bit of his deep love for this country.

You know, if you hang around this earth long enough you really see how things come full circle.

I had this odd sibling rivalry with America.

And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope-nothing else.

My father started growing very quiet as Alzheimer's started claiming more of him. The early stages of Alzheimer's are the hardest because that person is aware that they're losing awareness. And I think that that's why my father started growing more and more quiet.

Study the best and highest things that are; but of yourself humble thoughts retain.

One thing I learned about riding is to look for trouble before it happens.

I went to school at this log school house. A white woman was my teacher, I do not remember her name. My father had to pay her one dollar a month for me. Us kids that went to school did not have desks, we used slates and set on the hued down logs for seats.

Whenever I design any variant, or when anybody sends me one, I always say if at all possible within the context of the game don't have two home supply centers touching each other.

Then, all of a sudden, he stopped and nobody heard from him or got a response to orders. At this point Rod Walker looked him up and found he was living in a commune and seemed to be dropping out of the hobby.

I think most people played both variants and regular games. It was a period when variants were very popular and there were a lot more variants being played at that time. Every week practically, it seemed someone would publish a new variant in a zine.

Physical activity can get you going when you are immobilized. Get action in your life, and don't just talk about it. Get into the arena!

I don't know why people are so surprised by my live performances. My approach is so simple; every song I sing, every story I tell, every move I make, must move the audience to laughter, tears or inspiration. Otherwise, why should I do it?

The cries of the sufferers on the remaining part of the wreck were heard during the night.

Inflated descriptions by the pen or exaggerated illustrations by the pencil.

I have seven apartments in the house to keep in a state fit to be inspected everyday by Gentlemen.

It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.

When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself.

There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!

For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much - if he lives and uses that in hand day by day - shall be full to running over.

You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.

Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.

I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.

For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not what it may be: as a Christian, on the other hand, faith must believe without discussion, and the stronger it is, the more it keeps silent.

The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory.

My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it.

I leave to others the decision as to the good or evil tendencies of my character, but such as it is it shines upon my countenance, and there it can easily be detected by any physiognomist.

Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.

The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led.