You should tell yourself frequently 'I will only react to constructive suggestions.' This gives you positive ammunition against your own negative thoughts and those of others. Use this quote
Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition. Use this quote
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. Use this quote
In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We've got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms. Use this quote
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others? Use this quote
Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards. Use this quote
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship. Use this quote
All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others. Use this quote
An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others. Use this quote
If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside. Use this quote
I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act. Use this quote
Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results. Use this quote
The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were. Use this quote
I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars. Use this quote
We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook? Use this quote
Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against. Use this quote
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come. Use this quote
The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. Use this quote
Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon. Use this quote
My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up not only admiring him, but obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline du Pre, and many others, including many of my peers and contemporaries. Use this quote