Category: Quotations

There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.  So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people.  That comes afterward, when you’ve worked on your own corner.Aldous Huxley

You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man’s initiative and independence.Abraham Lincoln

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.Theodore Roosevelt

Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently.Henry Ford

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.Stephen Hawking

It’s a special weakness of our rich country to believe that we can barricade ourselves into safety—that if we just increase airport security, extremists can’t attack us; that gated communities keep predators away from our kids; that with constant vigilance, we can keep bedbugs out.Joel Stein, Time, 18-October-2010