Chuck Berry Quotes

Everything you touch touches you.

I've learned that people will seldom let you down if they understand that your destiny is in their hands, and vice versa.

I changed the world; the world changed me. Everything you do comes back to you. When you affect a situation, you are also affected.

What we live by we die by.

There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.

Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.

Society, like nature, is one body, really.

The relationship between reader and writer is reciprocal in a way. We co-create each other. We are constantly emerging out of the relationship we have with others.

If I am to judge others, I should be subject to be judged. You make your bed, you must lie in it.

If you want it, you've got to give it.

Everybody is someone else's instrument.

I need them as much as they need me.

Partnership implies that the individual has responsibilities as well as rights.

Everything is a circle. We are each responsible for our own actions. It will come back.

If anybody has done bad things to me, then I must have done the same to them.

We are accountable for each other.

Anything you do to and for another person, you do it to and for yourself

That seems to be the way of things. Everyone takes, everyone gives. Life is like that.

The central law of all wholesome life is reciprocity, mutuality. ... But the group is valuable only as it permits personalities, not automatons, to emerge.

What goes around comes around like a hool-a-hoop.

How beautifully is it ordered, that as many thousands work for one, so must every individual bring his labor to make the whole! The highest is not to despise the lowest, nor the lowest to envy the highest; each must live in all and by all. Who will not work neither shall he eat. So God has ordered that men, being in need of each other, should learn to love each other, and bear each other's burdens.

When you shut down the giving you shut down the receiving.

What goes around comes back around.

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. You receive from the world what you give to the world.

Just as you cannot receive without giving, so neither can you give without receiving.