Paul Harvey Quotes

If we cannot count on ourselves to do the right thing how can we count on anyone or anything else? Self-government won't work without self-discipline.

Communism has defeated itself everywhere except ... in American colleges.

When your outgo exceeds your income, the upshot may be your downfall.

It was self-serving politicians who convinced recent generations of Americans that we could all stand in a circle with our hands in each other's pockets and somehow get rich.

In small towns as well as large, good people outnumber bad people by 100 to 1. In big towns the 100 are nervous. But in small towns, it's the one.

Golf is a game in which you yell "for," shoot six, and write down five.

Oh, things always get better. Tomorrow will always be better. Just think about it ... is there any time in history in which you'd rather live than now?

You can always tell when you are on the road to success; it's uphill all the way.

Fathers are men who give daughters away to other men who aren't nearly good enough ... so they can have grandchildren who are smarter than anybody's.

My nightmares relate all of man's inhumanity to man---to our willing acceptance of cruelty to the other animals.

Each generation imagines that we're all going to hell. Each generation goes through a little hell and comes out heat tempered and better than before.

Life must always go on and Yoga is not about an escape from life. Yoga's about a way of dealing with life more effectively; to be able to involve oneself with one's family, one's friends, one's social commitments, one's job and yet at the same time maintain one's centre.

Delay, says Dr. Manner, is a luxury which people with right-now cancers cannot afford.

Mr. President, I love you, but you're wrong. (To Richard Nixon, on the Vietnam War)

The years don't always add wisdom, but they do add perspective.

The only ones to get hurt on a roller coaster are the jumpers.

Yoga is a product of Eastern thought. A further complication is that the early Yoga teachers were both Indian and Hindu. So from the late 1800's and early 1900's the Yoga teachers who came across were as interested in Hinduism as in Yoga. Often what we were being taught was a mixture of two different systems.

When Dr. Manner reported on the total remission of breast cancer in lab animals (Using 'Laetrile in conjunction with vitamins and enzymes') ... , ACS President, Ben Byrd, criticised (him) for making his announcement in public, and said such announcements should be made only in a proper scientific forum.

Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.

If you don't live it, you don't believe it.

These things I wish for you-tough times and disappointment, hard work and happiness. To me, it's the only way to appreciate life.

If you found yourself in a situation where you could either save a drowning man, or you could take a Pulitzer prize winning photograph of him drowning, what shutter speed and setting would you use?

Luck is a word used to describe the success of people you don't like.

Growth is the process of responding positively to change.

My own interest in Yoga came from a vague understanding of Indian thought and Indian philosophy in the late sixties and early seventies and from looking at the idea of meditation and at what meditation was.

Not everybody wants to call sin 'sin'! Some call it mischief. Some call it rebellion. And hardly anybody can agree where we should draw the line ... Our courts are ... trying to define pornography, yet moral law is very specific to any reader of God's Word.

Breath is perhaps the first thing we have in life. It's how we measure the starting of life and it's how we measure the ending of life.

Now you know the rest of the story.

When people come to Yoga, they are perhaps coming to it at the end of a long series of alternatives, and they're looking for something that's going to act very quickly. But Yoga is not a quick answer.

I just get up again when I fall down.

If I were the Devil . . . I mean, if I were the Prince of Darkness, I would of course, want to engulf the whole earth in darkness. I would have a third of its real estate and four-fifths of its population, but I would not be happy until I had seized the ripest apple on the tree, so I should set about however necessary to take over the United States. I would begin with a campaign of whispers. With the wisdom of a serpent, I would whisper to you as I whispered to Eve: "Do as you please." "Do as you please." To the young, I would whisper, "The Bible is a myth." I would convince them that man created God instead of the other way around. I would confide that what is bad is good, and what is good is "square". In the ears of the young marrieds, I would whisper that work is debasing, that cocktail parties are good for you. I would caution them not to be extreme in religion, in patriotism, in moral conduct. And the old, I would teach to pray. I would teach them to say after me: "Our Father, which art in Washington" . . .

If I were the devil, I'd educate authors in how to make lurid literature exciting so that anything else would appear dull an uninteresting. I'd threaten T.V. with dirtier movies and vice versa. And then, if I were the devil, I'd get organized. I'd infiltrate unions and urge more loafing and less work, because idle hands usually work for me. I'd peddle narcotics to whom I could. I'd sell alcohol to ladies and gentlemen of distinction. And I'd tranquilize the

The indignation of politicians is NOT a good measure of the gravity of any situation.

For me, success is, during this early pilgrimage, to leave the woodpile a little higher than I found it.