Daily Quote Archives

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers”

“To save yourself by means of that which has ruined you is the masterpiece of great men.”

“Dream as if you‘ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.”

“Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies.
And be it gash or gold it will not come
again in this identical guise.”

“One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.”

“The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance.”

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”

“One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.”

“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”

“Accidents, try to change them — it’s impossible. The accidental reveals man.”

“Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.”

“Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: People look without seeing, listen in without hearing.”

“If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.”

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”

“Ambition is not what man does, but what man would do.”

“The worst men often give the best advice.”

“The media‘s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power.”

“A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.”

“One isn‘t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous or honest.”

“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.”

“Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.”

“Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive -- the risk to be alive and express what we really are.”

“Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.”

“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”

“Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.”