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"I have concluded the evident existence of God, and that my existence depends entirely on God in all the moments of my life, that I do not think that the human spirit may know anything with greater evidence and certitude."
"Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had"
"I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's work for less than a man's pay."
"Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician."
"Is everybody in?... Is everybody in?... Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin... The program for this evening is not new. You've seen this entertainment through and through. You've seen your birth, your life and death. You might recall all the rest. Did you have a good world when you died? Enough to base a movie on?"
"Are you willing to stay right where you are and let the Lord do great things through you, though no one may seem to notice at all?"
"What is courage? Courage is the willingness to risk failure...There is only one danger I find in life, and that, indeed, is a real one. You may take too many precautions."
"Tell people - and they may forget... show them - they may remember... but involve them and they will understand."
"Those who claim to discover everything but produce no proofs of the same may be confuted as having actually pretended to discover the impossible."
"Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language."
"You are free; you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place or worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed - that has nothing to do with the business of the State."
"Don't worry if people don't recognize your merits; worry that you may not recognize theirs."
"Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime."
"You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves."
"There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours."
"The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form."
"Let these truths be indelibly impressed on our minds — that we cannot be happy, without being FREE — that we cannot be free, without being secure in our property— that we cannot be secure in our property, if, without our consent, others may, as by right, take it away — that taxes imposed on us by parliament, do thus take it away."
"You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us"
"A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process."
"One may go wrong in many different ways, but right only in one, which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed."
