I'm retired from the daredevil business. Use this quote
There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true. Use this quote
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. Use this quote
The relationship between the government of the United States and social and indigenous movements has always been difficult. Not just in Bolivia but worldwide. We need to have bilateral relations characterized by mutual respect. Use this quote
When someone lives as a minority, they experience the world differently than those of us who live in the majority. We may occupy the same physical space, but we don't occupy the same psychic space. Use this quote
Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. Use this quote
Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them. Use this quote
Though we may have desires or bold goals, for whatever reason, most of us don't think we can achieve something beyond what we're qualified to achieve. Why, I ask, do we let reality interfere with our dreams? Use this quote
People can do all kinds of things that maybe aren't wise in hindsight because of jealousy. Use this quote
The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever. Use this quote
Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom? Use this quote
I don't look my age, I don't feel my age and I don't act my age. To me age is just a number. Use this quote
My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination. Use this quote
Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world. Use this quote
Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher. Use this quote
I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender. Use this quote
Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision. Use this quote
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding. Use this quote
Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties. Use this quote
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune. Use this quote
