We may indeed be justly proud of our apostolic succesion. THESE ARE OUR METHODS - to carefully observe the phenomena of life in all its stages , to cultivate reasoning faculty so as to be able to know the true from the false. THIS IS OUR WORK - to pr...
One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong.
Now begin Famines of thought and feeling.
Don’t panic. If you write, you’ll be a writer.
Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.
Remember, tomorrow is promised to no one.
I want to be remembered like Pete Rose. 'Charlie Hustle.' I want people to say, 'Wherever he was, he was always giving it his all.'
When you speak of role models, when we talk to our kids, everybody is a role model, everyone, just as you look at a Michael Jordan to be the terrific athlete he is.
All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
I wanted to be a professional drummer.
I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on...
Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.
Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
The keener the want the lustier the growth.
If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.
Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.
Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.