R. W. Clark Quotes

There was a moth in there, and it still had its wings crumpled up, and it was just starting to pump its wings up. Life continues in lots of places, and life is a magical thing.

Every adult needs a child to teach; it’s the way adults learn.

A life lived at less than its full potential is a life half wasted.

Approach your lives as if they were novels, with their own heroes, villains, red herrings, and triumphs.

It is the eternal, inescapable law that growth comes only from work and preparation, whether the growth be material, mental, or spiritual. Work has no substitute.

Well, I don't think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president.

The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

I have given the United States half the territory they possess, and for them to suffer me to remain in poverty, in consequence of it, will not redound much to their honor hereafter.

Great things have been effected by a few men well conducted.

The work all comes from a psychological need. See the images that I make... It's really a psychological need. I'm just jerked around by it. I'm pulled by it.

When I started shooting speed, amphetamine, when I was 15, almost 16, it actually calmed me down.

If a country is not worth protecting it is not worth claiming.

We need a lot of thinking and ideas. We need all the innovators, particularly with the new sustainable technologies - how do we get them to affordability so that people can generate clean energy?

I don't know that you're ever going to persuade New Zealanders that they're not going to own their own homes and I'm not going to try.

A paradox arises: the only way to meaning in freedom is through boundaries. The only way that boundaries make any sense at all is through freedom.

Why not upset the apple cart? If you don't, the apples will rot anyway.

A habit is something you can do without thinking - which is why most of us have so many of them.

The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is pushing a train up the mountain, and it's icy, and I'm in bare feet.

Success is finding something you love to do, getting paid to do it and finding someone to share it with.

In some ways, I've always approached singing as acting, and the voice is just like a way of carrying the song.

There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair.

You can’t let your current circumstances dictate what kind of choices you make.

Nothing could be a more serious violation of public trust than to consciously make a war based on false claims.

They see me as an ordinary guy, like a construction worker or the guy who delivers your piano.

We need innovation. We need great ideas that can be simply and effectively produced all over the place.

Funny, when you finally faced reality, it was amazing how clearly you could see things.

Age ain't got nothing to do with how old you are.

A library is a path to the future--find yours there.

Last year I had a stroke. It left me in bad shape. I had to teach myself how to walk and talk all over again. It was a long hard fight. My speech is not perfect but I'm getting there.

Violence is the ultimate human degradation.

Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.

I waited far too long, being optimistic rather than realistic. I also failed to do my homework

I believe in courtesy, the ritual by which we avoid hurting other people's feelings by satisfying our own egos.

Whenever I do get to look out, it is glorious. Even the stars have a special brightness.

I just was apologizing for maybe being a little goofy.

If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr. Martin Luther King.

I don't make culture. I sell it.

Faith on a full stomach may be simply contentment but if you have it when you're hungry, it's genuine.

All I can do is do what I can do, and do what I know how to do. I do what I love to do, and that's pretty much it.

I may have grown up in the Age of Aquarius, but I'm growing old in the Age of the Acronym.

Nothing so diminishes democracy as secrecy.

When champions fail, they get back up and try again. They don't let failure discourage them.

You can suffocate a thought by expressing it with too many words.

Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues - honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift; let us discard all covetousness and greed.

As a writer, you paint strokes and leave suggestions so readers can create their own pictures. That allows you to know someone by a small action and it saves countless pages of explanation.

The music of your youth stays with you throughout your life.

A lot of people you think you know you don't know until you find out you don't know then it may be too late to know.

Count Basie was college, but Duke Ellington was graduate school.

The problem is when you try to impose today's standards on people living back then. It's the politically correct thing to do, but it was a different era, a different country then.