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All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

You will launch many projects, but have time to finish only a few. So think, plan, develop, launch and tap good people to be responsible. Give them authority and hold them accountable. Trying to do too much yourself creates a bottleneck.

Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.

Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

A man is only as faithful as his options.

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

Self-reform is the only kind that works.

I don't want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.

The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.

Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.