S.W. Collins Quotes

Hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Think back over your day and consider when God spoke. How did you sense it, or why did you fail to sense it at the time? It is often between the lines and in the empty places where we hear God.

A prudent person profits from personal experience, a wise one from the experience of others.

Do I believe in the concept of Zero Harm? Let's just say I believe that nothing is impossible

The difference between a good leader and a great leader is humility.

The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.

It truly is the power that you have deep within yourself that gives you the strength to pursue your dreams.

A motto I've adopted is, if at first you don't succeed, hide all evidence that you ever tried.

I suppose "giving without expecting anything in return" isn't something new, but it always pushes your happy button when you do it or see it.

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

Before I can effectively discipline students, I have to earn their friendship and respect.

We want to explore. We're curious people. Look back over history, people have put their lives at stake to go out and explore ... We believe in what we're doing. Now it's time to go.

Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.

Before you write - remember that every speech has something of 'you' in the writing. Don't take that away when you write. Be yourself. Be comfortable in your own skin.

Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other.

I come equipped with stereophonic funk producin´ disco inducin´ twin magnetic rock receptors.

Find a way to my heart, and I will always be with you.

My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.

No matter what, I need to maintain my sense of self and always be true to who I am.

I'm not a singer who plays a bit of drums. I'm a drummer that sings a bit.

I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me.

Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.

If you have more than three priorities then you don't have any.

Put your faith in what you most believe in.

The mind can be trained to relieve itself on paper.

Here's some advice. Stay alive.

I don't think of myself as being a woman and having anything to prove.

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.

You don't get there because, you get there in spite of.

Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.

I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.

Irish Alzheimer's: you forget everything except the grudges

Nationalism is a type of insanity in which the boundaries of a land replace God.

Poetry is like standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is always pointing straight at you.

The top is not forever. Either you walk down, or you are going to be kicked down.

Don't take care of your career. Take care of your people. They will take care of your career.

The world is in your hands, now use it.

That which commands admiration in the white woman only hastens the degradation of the female slave.

If you had hope, maybe you could find a way to make things change,. Because if you thought about it, there were so many reasons to try.

God is most certainly not threatened by science; He made it all possible.

Focusing solely on what you can potentially do better than any other organization is the only path to greatness.

In the process of simplifying oneself, one often discovers the thing called voice.

We are not imprisoned by circumstances, setbacks, mistakes or staggering defeats, we are freed by our choices.

If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!

I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.

Think before you speak. Think before you judge. Think before you think you have a person all figured out.

Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.

There's this common perception that having a famous last name is all you need. A surname may get you a meeting, but if there's no talent you won't get the part.

Write the poem only you can write.

Take a look at me now, cause there's just an empty space. And you coming back to me is against all odds and that's what I've got to face.