Richard

There is no virtue in being uncritical nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics.

There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone--many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long. Not for nothing is their motto TGIF -- 'Thank God It's Friday.' They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do.

Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired.

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished if you're alive, it isn't.

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.

In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.

Learning is finding out what you already know, Doing is demonstrating that you know it, Teaching is reminding others that they know it as well as you do. We are all learners, doers, and teachers.

Sometimes when learning comes before experience It doesn't make sense right away.

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

You teach best what you most need to learn.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.

Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again after a moment or lifetime is certain for those who are friends.

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Don't let life discourage you everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.

I have impeached myself by resigning.

I concede

A man is not finished when he's defeated he's finished when he quits.

I can see clearly now ... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate...

When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.

While technically I did not commit a crime, an impeachable offense... these are legalisms, as far as the handling of this matter is concerned it was so botched up, I made so many bad judgments. The worst ones, mistakes of the heart, rather than the head. But let me say, a man in that top job - he's got to have a heart, but his head must always rule his heart.

By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.

When the president does it, that means it is not illegal.

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

I can take it... The tougher it gets, the cooler I get...

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.

We are all in it together. This is a war. We take a few shots and it will be over. We will give them a few shots and it will be over.

I hereby resign this office of president of the United States.

I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing.

Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquillity, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and Tranquillity to Earth. For one priceless moment, in the whole history of man, all the people on this Earth are truly one. One in their pride in what you have done. One in our prayers that you will return safely to Earth.

I've analyzed the best I can ... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

Well, I'm not a crook.

I took a look around the office. ... I walked out and closed the door behind me. I knew that I would not be back there again. (On leaving the Executive Office Building)

So you are lean and mean and resourceful and you continue to walk on the edge of the precipice because over the years you have become fascinated by how close you can walk without losing your balance.

It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you've always played it.

Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit The lesson that most of us on this voyage never learn, but can never quite forget, is that to win is sometimes to lose.

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. ... If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

I turned into the helicopter ... the red carpet was rolled up. ... The White House was behind us now.

'Good luck, Mr President,' I said to him. 'As I told you when I named you, I know the country is going to be in good hands with you in the Oval Office.'

Rarely have so many people been so wrong about so much.

My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past his calls, his meetings and his decisions were already the ones that would shape America's future. (On transfer of power to Gerald R Ford)

I had never expected that the China initiative would come to fruition in the form of a Ping-Pong team. (On first friendly overture by People's Republic of China)

I let the American people down.

I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.

The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. ... The new president and his first lady.

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it.

My view is that one should not break up a winning combination.

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything.

I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.

I wouldn't bet the farm on it, but I'd bet the main house. I wouldn't even bet the outhouse on Mondale.

Violence or the threat of violence must never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. Once it does, the community, almost by definition, ceases to be a university. It is for this reason that from time immemorial expulsion has been the primary instrument of university discipline.

It is not too strong a statement to declare that this is the way civilizations begin to die ... None of us has the right to suppose it cannot happen here.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself--nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

This is a burden I shall bear for every day of the life that is left to me.

Get a good night's sleep and don't bug anybody without asking me. (To re-election campaign manager Clark MacGregor)

You see these bums, you know, blowing up campuses ... storming around about this issue. (On student protesters against Vietnam War)

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first ... Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.

The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct. (On campus radicals)

The student who invades an administration building, roughs up a dean, rifles the files and issues 'non-negotiable demands' may have some of his demands met by a permissive university administration. But the greater his 'victory' the more he will have undermined the security of his own rights.

This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation. (Saluting crew of the Apollo 11)

Tonight-to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans-I ask for your support. (On his Vietnam War policy)

There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I'm not like that ... I never shoot blanks.

My strong point is not rhetoric, it isn't showmanship, it isn't big promises-those things that create the glamour and the excitement that people call charisma and warmth.

My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.

There is a time to be timid. There is a time to be conciliatory. There is a time, even, to fly and there is a time to fight. And I'm going to fight like hell. (On Congressional moves toward impeachment)

My own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part of all the presidents. I don't think Kennedy should have done it. I don't think Johnson should have done it, and I don't think we should have done it.

The 1976 Bicentennial is not going to be invented in Washington, printed in triplicate by the Government Printing Office and mailed to you by the United States Postal Service.

If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished. (Proposal to reform welfare programs)

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got.

If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect.

There will be no whitewash in the White House. (On Watergate investigation)

I want you to stonewall it. (To staff on news of break-in at Watergate)

Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.

As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to ... the American people Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible. (On the Vietnam War)

I believe in the battle-whether it's the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle.

The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do. Yet there is always the danger of failing as a human being.

Your mind must always go, even while you're shaking hands and going through all the maneuvers. I developed the ability long ago to do one thing while thinking about another.

I'd rather use the nuclear bomb...Does that bother you I just want you to think big, Henry, for Christ's sake. to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on escalating the Vietnam War

Look at the Justice Department, it's full of Jews...The lawyers in government are damn Jews.

The antiwar movement is a wild orgasm of anarchists sweeping across the country like a prairie fire.

You're so goddamned concerned about the civilians, and I don't give a damn. to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on civilian casualties in Vietnam

Who are you going to shoot joking with Attorney General Richard Kleindienst about creating an opening on the Supreme court

When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

God, to me, it seems, is a verb, not a noun, proper or improper.

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions.

Dare to be naive.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.

God is a verb.

Everything you've learned in school as obvious becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

Either war is obsolete or men are.

The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal but ideas are immortal.

My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

The echo began in some indescribable way to undermine her hold on life. Coming at a moment when she chanced to be fatigued, it had managed to murmur, 'Pathos, piety, courage -- they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.'

Middle age is the time of life that a man first notices in his wife.

It's all right to hold a conversation, but you should let go of it now and then.

He who cannot rest, cannot work he who cannot let go, cannot hold on he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.

Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.

Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.

He is not drowning His sheep when He washeth them, nor killing them when He is shearing them. But by this He showeth that they are His own and the newshorn sheep do most visibly bear His name or mark, when it is almost worn out and scarce discernible on them that have the longest fleece.

In necessary things, unity in doubtful things, liberty in all things, charity.

Take a note of that his Lordship says he will turn it over in what he is pleased to call his mind.

Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense.

Nature is not cruel, pitilessly, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous -- indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.

A little kindness from person to person is better than a vast love for all humankind.

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy-one

Failing doesn't make you a failure. Giving up, accepting your failure, refusing to try again does

What did you ask at school today

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -- and you are the easiest person to fool.

The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things...

I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there.

If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.

It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant.

In the 20th century, specialisation has become the counterfeit of brilliance.

The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account.

What is a committee A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary.

Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.

A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind.

A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism-a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.

The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.

If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.

Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.

It's important for people not to hold a high opinion of politicians, and one of the strengths of the British is that they don't on the whole... The danger begins when people start admiring politicians.

Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.

It is eternity now. I am in the midst of it. It is about me and the sunshine.

The law demands good works and uses its terror--rejection, shame, fear of punishment, unanswered prayer, personal tragedy, etc.--as motivation. Here performance is a necessity to secure the blessings and avoid the curses. Grace, on the other hand, allows us to serve on a different basis--not from fear but on the basis of love and gratitude, from appreciation and gladness for blessings freely given and freely received.

Grace is not against good works It simply does not bless on the basis of good works. We receive blessing from God based solely on the merits of His Son--blessings freely given to us in Christ and nowhere else. The completeness that is in Christ mean deliverance from trying to 'be good' and 'do right' in order to be accepted by God.

A little boy came home and told his mother he had gotten first prize in an examination. The question had been How many legs does a horse have He had answered, Three. When his mother asked how he had gotten the first prize, he replied that all the other children had said, Two.

Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.

Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want-and their kids pay for it.

The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose.

The goal of revival is conformity to the image of Christ, not imitation of animals.

You are right on target when you say that mad scientists have a total disregard for the wellbeing of others. We don't want to spread evil we just see no point in bothering to spread good.

The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.

A sensible man knows you can't please everybody. A wise man knows you can't please anybody.

The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.

When money is seen as a solution for every problem, money itself becomes the problem.

It is the part of wisdom to keep your word and the part of folly to count on other people keeping theirs.

You don't marry one person you marry three . the person you think they are, the person they are, and the person they are going to become as the result of being married to you.

When I held you in my arms at your baptism, I wanted it to be a fresh start, for you to be more complete than we had ever been ourselves, but I wonder if we expected too much.

I believe in the institution of marriage and I intend to keep trying until I get it right.

Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.

Acceptance of dissent is the fundamental requirement of a free society.

When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension.

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.

When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

Measure not God's love and favour by your own feeling. The sun shines as clearly in the darkest day as it does in the brightest. The difference is not in the sun, but in some clouds which hinder the manifestation of the light thereof.

I am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspired.

Joy is not in things it is in us.

I write music with an exclamation point

There were many ways of not burdening one's conscience, of shunning responsibility, looking away, keeping mum. When the unspeakable truth of the Holocaust then became known at the end of the war, all too many of us claimed that they had not known anything about it or even suspected anything.

All of us, whether guilty or not, whether old or young, must accept the past. ... It is not a case of coming to terms with the past. That is not possible. It cannot be subsequently modified or undone.

Whoever refuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection.

Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune.

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

Life offers two great gifts--time, and the ability to choose how we spend it. Planning is a process of choosing among those many options. If we do not choose to plan, then we choose to have others plan for us.

All television is children's television.

No man is demolished but by himself.

We ought not to judge of men's merits by their qualifications, but by the use they make of them.

I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next

Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.

There are 1011 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

I know who I am. No one else knows who I am. If I was a giraffe, and someone said I was a snake, I'd think, no, actually I'm a giraffe.

Unless a life is activated by sustained purpose it can become a depressingly haphazard affair.

I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.

Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

I made my mistakes, but in all my years of public life, I have never profited from public service. I've earned every cent. And in all of my years in public life I have never obstructed justice. And I think, too, that I can say that in my years of public life that I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got.

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.

There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails.