Who Quotes

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.

A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

I'm not going to say, I'm an actor and I'm changing the world. Who cares?

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together.

No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

God forgives us... who am I not to forgive?

Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

The musicals had a good, happy feeling, saying that the world is a better place. They say it's not reality, but who cares? There's too much reality these days.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.