T. J. Clark Quotes

If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.

I believe unconditionally in the ability of people to respond when they are told the truth. We need to be taught to study rather than believe, to inquire rather than to affirm.

I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

I just tried to create a little chaos. Chaos is a good thing. God created the whole world out of it. Change is what comes of it.

Boys, be ambitious. Be ambitious not for money, not for selfish aggrandizement, not for the evanescent thing which men call fame. Be ambitious for the attainment of all that a man can be.

Faith dare the soul to go further than it can see.

I never laugh until I've had my coffee.

Honey, we all got to go sometime, reason or no reason. Dying's as natural as living. The man who's too afraid to die is too afraid to live.

I am intrigued by glamorous women ... A vain woman is continually taking out a compact to repair her makeup. A glamorous woman knows she doesn't need to.

Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.

Well, I'm too old to pimp, and too young to die, so I'm just gonna keep playin'

When it's over it's over. No questions, no tears, no farewell kisses.

It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you've fallen in love with.

The air has finally gotten to the place that we can breathe it together.

All gut strings. Thats just the first kind of guitar I played, it was a nylon string guitar. And to me, its the purest form of guitar making, and I just enjoy doing it.

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great - and they know I know it.

Hell, if I'd jumped on all the dames I'm supposed to have jumped on, I'd have had no time to go fishing.

Here is what we have to offer you in its most elaborate form -- confusion guided by a clear sense of purpose.

If we have the truth, it cannot be harmed by investigation. If we have not the truth, it ought to be harmed.

I'm just a lucky slob from Ohio who happened to be in the right place at the right time.

We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't.

The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds... And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it.

Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns.

I'm no actor and I never have been. What people see on the screen is me.

When you smile it's like the sun coming up.

You cut a hole in the building and people can look inside and see the way other people really lived.. it's making space without building it

I never felt that getting angry would do you any good other than hurt your own digestion- keep you from eating, which I liked to do.

We're not a democracy. It's a terrible misunderstandin g and a slander to the idea of democracy to call us that. In reality, we're a plutocracy: a government by the wealthy.

There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.

Imitate, assimilate, and innovate.

Life science research can be done on multiple platforms. Since we have a very small number of people flying into space, the more people you have, the better.

We're going to take out seven countries in 5 years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.

The American Marines have it [pride], and benefit from it. They are tough, cocky, sure of themselves and their buddies. They can fight and they know it.

Nothing can destroy a government more quickly than its failure to observe its own laws, or worse, its disregard of the charter of its own existence.

If you haven't time to help youngsters find the right way in life, somebody with more time will help them find the wrong way.

If you want to be happy for life, love what you do.

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.

The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.

It is time for conservatives to do what they do best and insist that a wasteful, inefficient government program gets off the books. Small government and the death penalty don't go together.

Music is the soundtrack of your life.

A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.

Skills are common. Talent is rare.

Highly engaged employees make the customer experience. Disengaged employees break it.

Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision.

A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.