W.D. Frank Quotes

I love working. I don't know what the word vacation means.

I always felt the world cannot fall apart as long as free men see the rainbow, feel the rain and hear the laugh of a child.

You can't make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it.

It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head.

To be wise means to be a teacher, means to be a soul winner. That's our business - That's our only business!

For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.

To me absurdity is the only reality

My biggest addictions have been chocolate cake, mashed potatoes, and butter sandwiches.

The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself.

Yes, winning the gold medal was undoubtedly the biggest day of my career - mostly because I won the way I had prepared to run it. It was a totally satisfying experience.

If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with!

A valuable friend is one who'll tell you what you should be told, even if it offends you.

I think as far as kids go, you just have to work hard. Work on your skills, keep focused.

Running a marathon is just like reading a good book. After a while you're just not conscious of the physical act of reading.

Never question the truth of what you fail to understand, for the world is filled with wonders.

If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.

Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.

It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.

Time is given us to be happy and for no other reason [...] When we waste time, we waste happiness.

It's a never-ending process to try to make yourself the best person you possibly can.

There are situations where you can either rise to the occasion or you can feel sorry for yourself. Really that's within your own abilities to make that decision.

The depth of revival will be determined exactly by the depth of the spirit of repentance.

A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.

A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.

Is there intelligent life on Earth?

In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child.

Bad reviews I've gotten never diminished the number of people in my audience; good reviews have never added to the number of people in my audience; be your own critic.

The sense of being led by an unseen hand which takes mine, while another hand reaches ahead and prepares the way, grows upon me daily.

The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents — because they have a tame child-creature in their house.

Everything in life is unusual until you get accustomed to it -The Scarecrow - The Marvellous Land Of Oz by L. Frank Baum pg 103 chapter 13

My Advice to Young Filmmakers is This: Don't Follow Trends. Start Them!

The first thing you have to do if you want to raise nice kids, is you have to talk to them like they are people instead of talking to them like they're property.

Most ideologies of the world are not for the individual. They're against the individual. Communism, fascism. Any kind of an ism - almost - they're against the individual.

the only truth is face to face, the poem whose words become your mouth and dying in black and white we fight for what we love, not are

If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it.

You've got to bumble forward into the unknown.

Every experience that you have is important.

The greater the faith, the greater the result.

Cider was my drink because I liked the taste and it made me stupid.

I'm gonna live till I die.

True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

Question: Who governs the governors? Answer: Entropy

Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.

The best revenge is the massive success.

You must work and do good, not be lazy and gamble, if you wish to earn happiness. Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

To feel sorry for the needy is not the mark of a Christian - to help them is.

The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.

Just the privilege of fellowship with God is infinitely more than any thing that God could give. When he gives himself he is giving more than anything else in the universe.

The simple program of Christ for winning the whole world is to make each person he touches magnetic enough with love to draw others.