Abraham Quotes

Every act of self control leads to a sense of self-respect.

The loss of illusions and the discovery of identity, though painful at first, can be ultimately exhilarating and strengthening.

Man is a perpetually wanting animal.

What shall we think of a well-adjusted slave?

It is vital that people "count their blessings:" to appreciate what they possess without having to undergo its actual loss.

Quitting smoking can be a very good test of ones character. Pass the test and you will have accomplished so much more than just get rid of one bad habit

Self-actualizing people must be what they can be.

A child wants some kind of undisrupted routine or rhythm. He seems to want a predictable, orderly world.

I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks. All that is necessary is not to be afraid of making mistakes, or of appearing naive.

Apparently one impression we are making... is that creativeness consists of lightning striking you on the head in one great glorious moment.

The fact that people who create are good workers tends to be lost.

One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.

To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery.

If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody.

What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?

Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.

She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.

Imagination in business is the ability to perceive opportunity.

I couldn't tell if any frames were removed. Seen as a whole it shows that I have seen. Seeing you have 18 frames a second you can take out one or two and I couldn't tell.

The last love is the most lasting of loves

As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.

I'm just having a wonderful time. It's an interesting thing that I'm very comfortable with this material and I don't know why. Maybe it's because I did MacBeth.

Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't do anything except just stand there.

There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.

If these men decided that they have to go in there and fight, I want them to send their own children and grandchildren. I want them to not send a bunch of strangers' kids in there to fight and die.

When I drank, I'd be happy for 10 minutes. When I got high, I'd feel a sense of nothingness for about an hour. But in the end, my negative emotions always came rushing back.

A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.

In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.

You don't have to become a slave in a corporate office or groupie of a celebrity architect, because all you need is a piece of paper, a pencil and the desire to make architecture.

Scholars and historians have dubbed the last 100 years the American Century, and I think there can be little doubt that the Council on Foreign Relations helped to make it so.

All I have learned, I learned from books.

My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all mean are created free and equal.

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.

If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.

Nothing short of the Almighty Power of God can Save us - it is not in our Numbers, our Union, or our Valour that I dare trust.

The power to bind and loose to Truth is given: The mouth that speaks it is the mouth of Heaven, The power, which in a sense belongs to none, Thus understood belongs to every one.

True love is humble, thereby is it known; Girded for service, seeking not its own; Vaunts not itself, but speaks in self-dispraise.

Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.

Faith like Job's cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.

I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.

The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.

Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.

feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal

There is nothing more inspiring than having a mind unfold before you. Let people teach who have a calling. It is never just a job.

The price of training is always a certain trained incapacity: the more we know how to do something, the harder it is to learn to do it differently.

Let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of his own, and his children's liberty.

We can not have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us.

The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.