M. Scott Peck Quotes
I believe it would be considerably healthier for us to dare to live without a reason for many things than with reasons that are simplistic.
Quotes to Explore
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I firmly believe that the Constitution is the most powerful challenge to illiberal tendencies. If the Constitution is followed in letter and spirit and if the laws are made in the spirit in which Constitution was made, liberties can indeed be protected.
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Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.
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I hate jeans for no reason.
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I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended.
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Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?
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I'm more of a 5 Live man. But I might listen to a bit of Coldplay or The Smiths.
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I believe everyone should have healthcare. In all my correspondence - I've been saying for years - it's a right, not a privilege.
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I'm a registered, vetted gun owner, but that's because I live way out in the country, like way out in the middle of nowhere.
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'The View' was so much fun. So much fun because the audience was 85-percent fans that wanted to be there celebrating 'One Life to Live' and the other 15 percent were crew members from 'One Life to Live'. It was just really, really wonderful and the clips were wonderful.
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I don't believe in regret.
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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For a lot of people, Superman is and has always been America's hero. He stands for what we believe is the best within us: limitless strength tempered by compassion, that can bear adversity and emerge stronger on the other side. He stands for what we all feel we would like to be able to stand for, when standing is hardest.
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We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.
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I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.
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Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
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I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.
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Up to nineteen seventy six when I quit gymnastics I was very, disappointed because I didn't have anything which is, live with. I didn't have a friend so I didn't have a coach anymore.
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I've got to believe I'm the first person to win the Newbery who has written a Harlequin romance!
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We've gotten better as a live band. The songs have been allowed to grow with our audience. I don't think I would have done it any other way.
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Believe me, it is actions that count.
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Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose.
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I don't consider myself flashy at all. I mean, did I dress like the average Washingtonian? No.
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I try to satisfy the desires that people have to have their books personalized. That's a value, or feature, of bibliophilia that may vanish. How do you get your e-book signed? The idea of people standing in line to get my signature in their book, it's hard to turn them away.
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I believe it would be considerably healthier for us to dare to live without a reason for many things than with reasons that are simplistic.
