I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948.
Barack, like any leader, is human. And, you know, our challenges in this country isn't finding the next person who's gonna deliver us from our own evil. Because our challenges are us. The challenges that this country faces is how are we as individuals in this society gonna change? What are we gonna do differently?
The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.
All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force. . . We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.
Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
Don't be cocky. Don't be flashy. There's always someone better than you.
Our species in general had grown accustomed to pain and adversity through millennia of struggle. . . we were only recently evolving the ability to let ourselves feel good and have things go well for any significant period of time.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power. Life just has to go on!
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.
And the reason is found in the first lie - the lie which you hold as the truth about God - that God cannot be trusted; that God's love cannot be depended upon; that God's acceptance of you is conditional; that the ultimate outcome is thus in doubt. For if you cannot depend on God's love to always be there, on whose love can you depend? If God retreats and withdraws when you do not perform properly, will not mere mortals also?
His soul was bigger than a body's ought to be.
What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.
You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
All comes at the proper time to him who knows how to wait.
Everyone has a purpose in life. . . a unique gift or special talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of our own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals.
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.