Quotes to inspire and reflect

My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.

Middle Age: When you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.

Nature gives us twelve years to develop a love for our children before turning them into teenagers

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.

The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Life is a long agonized illness only curable by death.

The best cure for sea sickness is to sit under a tree.

By far the most common craving of pregnant women is not to be pregnant.

I played with my grandfather a lot when I was a kid. He was dead, but my parents had him cremated and put his ashes in an Etch-a-Sketch.

It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.

Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.

The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.

What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.

We have long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune-tellers look good.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.

I don't want yes-men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

I always invest in companies that an idiot could run because one day they will.

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

Everybody has to believe in something.... I believe I'll have another drink.

I am not what happened to me; I am what I choose to become.

Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards… a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy

Once a person is determined to help themselves, there is nothing that can stop them.

Everyone can rise above their circumstances and achieve success if they are dedicated to and passionate about what they do.

Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.

It is not where you start but how high you aim that matters for success.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another and suffer the indignity of being the skunk of the world.

If I had my time over I would do the same again, so would any man who dares call himself a man.

I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists. I tell them that I was also a terrorist yesterday, but, today, I am admired by the very people who said I was one.

Those who conduct themselves with morality, integrity and consistency need not fear the forces of inhumanity and cruelty.

We have not taken the final step of our journey, but the first step on a longer and even more difficult road.

Prison is a still point in a turning world, and it is very easy to remain in the same place in jail while the world moves on

It is not our diversity which divides us; it is not our ethnicity, or religion or culture that divides us. Since we have achieved our freedom, there can only be one division amongst us: between those who cherish democracy and those who do not.

When the history of our times is written, will we be remembered as the generation that turned our backs in a moment of global crisis or will it be recorded that we did the right thing?

A freedom fighter learns the hard way that it is the oppressor who defines the nature of the struggle, and the oppressed is often left no recourse but to use methods that mirror those of the oppressor. At a point, one can only fight fire with fire.

I could not imagine that the future I was walking toward could compare in any way to the past that I was leaving behind.

No single person can liberate a country. You can only liberate a country if you act as a collective.

Peace is the greatest weapon for development that any person can have.