Quotes

“Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.” Richard Nixon

“We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.” Richard Nixon

“People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.” Richard Nixon

“If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.” Richard Nixon

“I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.” Richard Nixon

“I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.” Richard Nixon

“It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.” Richard Nixon

“No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.” Richard Nixon

“Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.” Richard Nixon

“Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.” Richard Nixon

“Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I?” Richard Nixon

“Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.” Richard Nixon

“I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.” Richard Nixon

“It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you've always played it.” Richard Nixon

“Solutions are not the answer.” Richard Nixon

“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.” Henri Nouwen

“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.” Henri Nouwen

“In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.” Henri Nouwen

“Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.” Henri Nouwen

“The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised.” Henri Nouwen

“Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.” Henri Nouwen

“Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community.” Henri Nouwen

“Jesus didn't say, 'Blessed are those who care for the poor.' He said, 'Blessed are we where we are poor, where we are broken.' It is there that God loves us deeply and pulls us into deeper communion with himself.” Henri Nouwen

“A life without a lonely place, that is, without a quiet center, becomes destructive.” Henri Nouwen

“Asking people for money is giving them the opportunity to put their resources at the disposal of the Kingdom.” Henri Nouwen

“Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.” Henri Nouwen

“Friendship has always belonged to the core of my spiritual journey.” Henri Nouwen

“God is a God of the present. God is always in the moment, be that moment hard or easy, joyful and painful.” Henri Nouwen

“God wants you to live for others and to live that presence well.” Henri Nouwen

“I've had a tremendous problem with depression in my life. I'd rather not talk about it, because it's over. But depression is real.” Henri Nouwen