Edward Lewis Quotes

#1. We define ourselves by the best that is in us, not the worst that has been done to us.

Edward B. Lewis

#2. Amazing, isn't it, when you think about it, how the world keeps on turning, no matter how fucked up things get?" In

Richard Russo

#3. I might be better able to help parents of dying children, but for quite a while I felt less able, too emotionally involved. And from that time on, I could rarely discuss the death of a child without tears welling up into my eyes.

C. Everett Koop

#4. God loves the world through us.

Mother Teresa

#5. The most important person to thank is ... my mother. She gave me four golden rules to live by: be a proud black man, take care of your family, make education a priority, and try to do the right thing.

Edward B. Lewis

#6. There are only two living American authors fully deserving of the Nobel Prize. One is Lewis Mumford. The other is Wallace Stegner, whose novels and essays provide us a comprehensive portrait of industrial society in all its glittering corruption and radiant evil.

Edward Abbey

#7. Were he, the great Lord Steldor, another man, I might have spent the afternoon smiling.

Cayla Kluver

#8. A Russian imbues his polite things with a heartiness, both of phrase and expression, that compels belief in their sincerity.

Mark Twain

#9. Justice Lewis Powell spoke for all of us when he said: Equal justice under law is perhaps the most inspiring idea of our society. It is one of the ends for which our entire legal system exists.

Edward Kennedy

#10. I might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I've had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures.

Bill Walton

#11. An uniformity of weights and measures, arranged upon mathematical principles, would be a benefit to the whole commercial world, if it were wise enough to adopt such an expedient.

Jean-Baptiste Say

#12. Courage, Love, Illusion (or dream, if you will)
he who possesses all three, or two, or at least one of these things wins whatever there is to win; those who lack all three are the failures.

Edward Lewis Wallant

#13. It isn't necessary to seek out adventure. Opening to what is around you will produce the most extraordinary experiences.

Edward B. Lewis