A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
Buildings should serve people not the other way around.
I wanted to buy a candle holder but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake.
Desire is individual. Happiness is common.
Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
Take young researchers put them together in virtual seclusion give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast and stick it out the window.
My father he was like the rock the guy you went to with every problem.
I love the man that can smile in trouble that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm and whose conscience approves his conduct will pursue his principles unto death.
The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
I know my country has not perfected itself. At times we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.
Keep the faith don't lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct.
The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
The fact is there is forgiveness for those who seek God. And I believe in the power of redemption.
Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.
But I contend that if we're providing total medical coverage for every man woman and child in Iraq shouldn't we at least be doing the same thing for every man woman and child in the United States?
Sure 'Twilight' is really huge right now and everybody's freaking out over it but it will go away soon and I will be back to doing what I'm used to doing: weird little movies that nobody sees.
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent rebellion and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
I'm looking more like my dogs every day - it must be the shaggy fringe and the ears.
I think I'm also more open to other writers being present and listening to other opinions whereas before I was going through my angsty teen years while making records.
In these times God's people must trust him for rest of body and soul.
The more I want to get something done the less I call it work.
I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.
Alas after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers.
My father was grounded a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.
I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
To be successful a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
Love hope fear faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.
If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all.
To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.
It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
Home is the most popular and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.
I hated every minute of training but I said 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
It worries me about our unwillingness to really address reforms and modernization in Medicare. This thing was designed 37 years ago. It has not evolved to keep pace with current medical technology.
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted but now it happens to everybody.
I grew up watching all these crazy movies European movies and stuff and I guess that I always laughed at things that were a little more offbeat.
My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.
We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Again you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut destiny life karma whatever. This approach has never let me down and it has made all the difference in my life.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along.
In a spiritually sensitive culture then it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.
Switzerland is a small steep country much more up and down than sideways and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.
I'm amazed. When I was 40 I thought I'd never make 50. And at 50 I thought the frosting on the cake would be 60. At 60 I was still going strong and enjoying everything.
In the absence of justice what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else.
Think what a better world it would be if we all the whole world had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.
I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.
In my opinion no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.
Married or unmarried young or old poet or worker you are still a dreamer and will one time know and feel that your life is but a dream.
Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases new hires qualify for food stamps.
Always be yourself express yourself have faith in yourself do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
Friendship is unnecessary like philosophy like art It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue a wonderful living side by side can grow if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
Liking money like I like it is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.
Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Keywords : silly,nationalism
A poem begins as a lump in the throat a sense of wrong a homesickness a lovesickness.
Finding some quiet time in your life I think is hugely important.
The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
Don't follow any advice no matter how good until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.
We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.
The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don't even care about my career anymore.
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
Old age comes on suddenly and not gradually as is thought.
You know maybe I was just born in the wrong time but I love all things romantic. Puffy understands that. For my last birthday he covered my hotel room floor with rose petals and had flowers and candles all over the room.
I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father's lifestyle.
I don't start with a design objective I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate.
Living in dreams of yesterday we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.
Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights and governments need to learn from that listen to the movement and respond.
A true friend freely advises justly assists readily adventures boldly takes all patiently defends courageously and continues a friend unchangeably.
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
I have a healthy body free of the chemicals that once controlled it.
Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
Someday after mastering the winds the waves the tides and gravity we shall harness for God the energies of love and then for a second time in the history of the world man will have discovered fire.
What counts is what you do with your money not where it came from.
But this Veterans Day I believe we should do more than sing the praises of the bravery and patriotism that our veterans have embodied in the past. We should take this opportunity to re-evaluate how we are treating our veterans in the present.
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love trust partnership tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Keywords : desperate,characteristic
We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give.
Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers the best of them in doubt and misery the most in plodding hesitation doing as well as they can what practical work lies at hand.
Pretend to be dumb that's the only way to reach old age.
I don't find the technology threatening. A lot of people my age my generation find it difficult to immerse themselves. But I would never preclude the idea of using any technology if I thought it suited the end result.
There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but years after we know it was much later.
Painting is easy when you don't know how but very difficult when you do.
As I approach my 88th birthday it's become apparent to me that my eyes and ears among other appurtenances aren't quite what they used to be. The prospect of long flights to wherever in search of whatever are not quite as appealing.
I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.
The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.
To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
I'm not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I'm the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.
Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course if you dig deeper it's really how it works.
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false misleading fictitious mendacious - just dead wrong.
From the naturalistic point of view all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.
Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.
Oh and once when I was in the Marines I got a perfect score on my physical fitness test.
Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams it will transcend them.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.
You know a lot of people are just interested in in building a company so they can make money and get out.
Music is the fourth great material want first food then clothes then shelter then music.
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
Keywords : poets,unacknowledged
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
I ask you to pray for me for once age has overtaken us we find consolation only in religion.
She comes from the Midwest. She had me at a very young age and raised me on her own. She's a very hard worker.
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher the brewer or the baker that we expect our dinner but from their regard to their own interest.
Things alter for the worse spontaneously if they be not altered for the better designedly.
I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.
Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions and see what they would be at as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant practice it first upon yourself.
America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
Both within the family and without our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be.
The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
Government's first duty is to protect the people not run their lives.
He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything.
The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer.
Looking back I have this to regret that too often when I loved I did not say so.
Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains always was.
There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made between patriotism which is attachment to a way of life and nationalism which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life.
Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.
Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?
You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
I've been very competitive by nature from a young age whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else or always wanting to be the first one in line.
We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.
Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with but by the time you've got all this great wisdom you don't get to be young anymore.
The artist is nothing without the gift but the gift is nothing without work.
The problem is not that people are taxed too little the problem is that government spends too much.
Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.
I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.
Anyway no drug not even alcohol causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles we shouldn't test people for drugs we should test them for stupidity ignorance greed and love of power.
Not only is women's work never done the definition keeps changing.
I don't understand the whole dating thing. I know right off the bat if I'm interested in someone and I don't want them to waste their money on me and take me out to eat if I know I'm not interested in that person.
Over the past 20 years I have noticed that the most flexible dynamic inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which like it or not is modern reality.
Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy we think to be loyal to a family and clan whose blood is in your own veins.
It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.
If you have an important point to make don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
Ah women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
Government is a trust and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.
The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years from 14 to 34.
When I was a kid my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age.
Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.
All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
In this world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.
Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.
You show your vulnerability through relationships and those feelings are your soft spot. You need to have a soft spot.
Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.
Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.
You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
He has no enemies but is intensely disliked by his friends.
You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.
A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together.
A lot of times women don't get the male perspective in regards to a relationship what men go through when they're not really dealing well.
If you want to conquer fear don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people things literature music - the world is so rich simply throbbing with rich treasures beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
My role in society or any artist's or poet's role is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher not as a leader but as a reflection of us all.
If women were particular about men's characters they would never get married at all.
But let us remember at the same time government is sacred and not to be trifled with.
People pay to see movies with women looking beautiful but I think there will be a place for me to play women looking my own age.
A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things a poet in words a musician by sounds.
History is a relentless master. It has no present only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings and making music with them.
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.
Security is I would say our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives staying in touch with people being creative - if we don't solve these security problems then people will hold back.
I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would have a good time I would have a girlfriend. I think that's where a lot of my pain comes from. I think I never had any teenage years to go back to.
Education without values as useful as it is seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.
It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage to put together a family and a home.
In America I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans they don't have a bad deli. There's no mediocrity accepted.
A day without sunshine is like you know night.
It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.
I would often find myself at the age of 21 at midnight running down a dark street on my own with 10 men chasing me. And the fact they had cameras in their hands made that legal.
In every marriage more than a week old there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find and continue to find grounds for marriage.
In motivating people you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people I hope by example - and perhaps by excitement by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.
Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online.
Our deeds still travel with us from afar and what we have been makes us what we are.
We are all tourists in history and irony is what we win in wars.
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Back in the 1960s I saw Peter Paul and Mary. I was at that age about 14 and I was mesmerized.
Lord grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.
The meek shall inherit the Earth but not its mineral rights.
To err is human but to really foul up requires a computer.
People say 'Just say who you're dating. Then people will stop being so ravenous about it.' It's like No they won't! They'll ask for specifics.
My experience as a school nurse taught me that we need to make a concerted effort all of us to increase physical fitness activity among our children and to encourage all Americans to adopt a healthier diet that includes fruits and vegetables but there is more.
Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.
There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
I like food. I like eating. And I don't want to deprive myself of good food.
A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender but you don't have a top for it.
Our record number of teenagers must become our record number of high school and college graduates and our record number of teachers scientists doctors lawyers and skilled professionals.
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
OK in all seriousness I would say I couldn't be in a relationship without equality generosity integrity spirit kindness and humor. And awesomeness.
Ah! yes I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.
You can't solve a problem as complex as inequality in one legal clause.
All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.
My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.
When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.
Fishes live in the sea as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
Peace hath higher tests of manhood than battle ever knew.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins all of them imaginary.
There must be freedom for all to live to think to worship no book no avenue must be closed.
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems in my opinion to characterize our age.
Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people.
I hate the idea that you shouldn't wear something just because you're a certain age.
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.
Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.
So in my uncertainty I went to graduate school and there it all happened.
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world.
Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible it's unbelievable.
If your computer speaks English it was probably made in Japan.
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Dieting is murder on the road. Show me a man who travels and I'll show you one who eats.
They claim this mother of ours the Earth for their own use and fence their neighbors away from her and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.
Too many people just eat to consume calories. Try dining for a change.
I not only use all the brains that I have but all that I can borrow.
I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
A woman must combine the role of mother wife and politician.
Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.
We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.
If there must be trouble let it be in my day that my child may have peace.
I think it's brought the world a lot closer together and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then again television at its best is magnificent.
When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
The first problem for all of us men and women is not to learn but to unlearn.
In every country and every age the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.
If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG.
Gee I am a complete Luddite when it comes to computers I can barely log on!
I am become death the destroyer of worlds.
For four to six months at a time I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast carrots and black coffee.
In a few decades the relationship between the environment resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights democracy and peace.
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.
Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.
The economy in the Valley will need to grow if students want to come back and work with their specialized degrees. We need to develop more to create more opportunities.
Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future act now without delay.
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city it might be better to change the locks.
We can live without religion and meditation but we cannot survive without human affection.
Golf is a game in which you yell "fore" shoot six and write down five.
Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.
Women may not have it easy but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until perhaps she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.
The first feminine feature that goes with advancing age is the neck.
We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
I don't need plastic in my body to validate me as a woman.
I distrust camels and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.
I went to my son's graduation this weekend and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.
Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.
When bad men combine the good must associate; else they will fall one by one an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?
I saw few die of hunger; of eating a hundred thousand.
Unless we keep this planet healthy everything else is for naught.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase just take the first step.
The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value.
When you forgive you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.
We need to give each other the space to grow to be ourselves to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas openness dignity joy healing and inclusion.
As a medical doctor it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.
My parents especially my mother were no influence on me whatsoever.
If my films don't show a profit I know I'm doing something right.
I've said it before but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him I could see a future.
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time.
I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.
The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.
I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.
We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital.
Faith is a knowledge within the heart beyond the reach of proof.
Every nation has to either be with us or against us. Those who harbor terrorists or who finance them are going to pay a price.
If love is the answer could you please rephrase the question?
Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.
I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child he would grow up to be an eggplant.
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.
My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting' to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done.
Everything makes me nervous - except making films.
Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is I think the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
Science and technology revolutionize our lives but memory tradition and myth frame our response.
Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.
In marriage there are no manners to keep up and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind it don't matter.
If you age with somebody you go through so many roles - you're lovers friends enemies colleagues strangers; you're brother and sister. That's what intimacy is if you're with your soulmate.
If you start writing to an audience you're talking down to them. I've never written for any age group I just write character. If you can capture that you'll get the audiences and it will be a wide range as it is for 'Twilight' it's a pretty wide range.
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
Architecture tends to consume everything else it has become one's entire life.
Goodness is beauty in the best estate.
Never have more children than you have car windows.
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be for the world an example of a genuinely free democratic just and humane society.
When I find myself in the company of scientists I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
He who is completely sanctified or cleansed from all sin and dies in this state is fit for glory.
I've used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly I've still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.
I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pension scheme because I don't make enough money.
If there is something to pardon in everything there is also something to condemn.
First comes thought; then organization of that thought into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning as you will observe is in your imagination.
Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.
When love is gone there's always justice. And when justice is gone there's always force. And when force is gone there's always Mom. Hi Mom!
Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.
Of course the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.
Trust yourself then you will know how to live.
There was no relationship between a wedding dress and fashion. There was no good taste either. I realized that I could make an impression in terms of changing and readdressing the whole industry of bridal.
And to get real work experience you need a job and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree.
Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
When I write about a 15-year old I jump I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.
Most fears are basic: fear of the dark fear of going down in the basement fear of weird sounds fear that somebody is waiting for you in your closet. Those kinds of things stay with you no matter what age.
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope to love - and to put its trust in life.
It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.
I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'
Personally I just think rap music is the best thing out there period. If you look at my deck in my car radio you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy that's all I live that's all I listen to that's all I love.
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science environmental management government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.
I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me I guess.
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
Flying back from New York the flight attendant said 'God I wished you were here yesterday we had a stroke on the plane. I said if I have a stroke on a plane I hope the pretend doctor isn't the one on the plane. I want a real doctor.
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
Everything I learned I learned from the movies.
Autism is a neurological disorder. It's not caused by bad parenting. It's caused by you know abnormal development in the brain. The emotional circuits in the brain are abnormal. And there also are differences in the white matter which is the brain's computer cables that hook up the different brain departments.
No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole the keyhole of nature trying to know what's going on.
I wasn't going to have fun doing a teen movie again.
When I get logical and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble.
When I had a job catering I catered a wedding for the Smashing Pumpkins bassist in Indiana. And I served Billy Corgan shrimp off a tray.
People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger which I think without flattering myself I did but I think I certainly have as George Orwell says people do after a certain age the face they deserve.
Most women are indulgent of themselves. This is a mistake. It should be only the reward of old age.