Who Quotes

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.

I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.

Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.

I could have possibly beaten Senator McCain in the primary. Then I could have been the candidate who lost to Barack Obama.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination.

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

What pedophiles and people who have sexual desires on children lose sight of to a terrible, terrible degree - a devastating degree - is that their victims are real people who will suffer forever whatever abuses are perpetrated on them.

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.