Everything in life is somewhere else and you get there in a car.
Whenever I fail as a father or husband a toy and a diamond always works.
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death leaving only what is truly important.
Dreams will get you nowhere a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
If a man achieves victory over this body who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame a little less than his share of the credit.
A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.
I've got all the money I'll ever need if I die by four o'clock.
Everyone related to me in my circle was from church: church friends church school church activities. All my friends weren't allowed to watch MTV or go to PG-13 movies or listen to the radio so I didn't really know anything different. That's how I was raised.
Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
There's just me and my wife and a dog and we feed him Healthy Choice also.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
I don't know if this is too weird to say but this is completely surreal for me. Bizarre. The cover of 'Teen Vogue' has been on my bucket list forever.
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
Where does it stop? You get offered money for your wedding then for your kids new houses holidays We earn enough from football and sponsorships why do you need any more?
It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money better jobs.
Of course the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.
I think that clearly it has an influence to be coming of age during the punk rock era to come from a difficult and sporadically violent background to have been in and out of such chaos I think it actually helps. But I don't know for sure.
At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.
I will never be an old man. To me old age is always 15 years older than I am.
I call architecture frozen music.
Many kids come out of college they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics.
I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own so both of them together is certain death.
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors since all men are equal but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors for from the time of Jefferson onward the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards not downwards.
You were made by God and for God and until you understand that life will never make sense.
There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.
Forgiveness is an act of the will and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.
If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?
If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed races won or lasting happiness achieved.
Let us always meet each other with smile for the smile is the beginning of love.
The best way to reduce the cost of medical care is to reduce the illness.
One of my movies was called "True Lies." It's what the Democrats should have called their convention.
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Most of the offers I get from Hollywood are for teen comedies. My manager thinks I'm crazy for turning down all that money but I'm very picky.
I can't wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach all my own age. We'd be laughing and having a good time and getting loopy on our prescription drugs. Driving golf carts around. I can't wait.
The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in.
When grace is joined with wrinkles it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
Architecture begins where engineering ends.
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
The greater the power the more dangerous the abuse.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
Any change even a change for the better is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical.
This is the city of dreamers and time and again it's the place where the greatest dream of all the American dream has been tested and has triumphed.
The battle for women's rights has been largely won.
I didn't have the same fitness or ability as the other girls so I had to beat them with my mind.
The ache for home lives in all of us the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
As soon go kindle fire with snow as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience.
If you can count your money you don't have a billion dollars.
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe wings to the mind flight to the imagination and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
The very idea of true patriotism is lost and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot sir! Why patriots spring up like mushrooms!
I really liked the snake that breaks out of the cage in the beginning of the movie. I saw it in real life and it was really cool. Really big and fat. The owls are cool as well but you can't really pet them.
Until you value yourself you won't value your time. Until you value your time you will not do anything with it.
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
I was taught from a young age that I had to serve so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.
Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.
I could cook from quite an early age - purely because I liked it.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things but their inward significance.
I crashed my boyfriend's birthday when I was 12 years old. He didn't invite me and so I showed up.
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him.
Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.
Only the dreamer shall understand realities though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
Virtue can only flourish among equals.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty the ocean does not become dirty.
I would rather exercise than read a newspaper.
A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.
On the battlefield the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation let it be our pledge that when they return home we leave no veteran behind.
A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
Our business in life is not to get ahead of others but to get ahead of ourselves.
Faith makes all things possible love makes all things easy.
Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
It's easier to force feed people than it is to give 'em what they want. It makes more money.
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.
When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination the whole world opens up to you.
A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
With Malice toward none with charity for all with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right let us strive on to finish the work we are in to bind up the nation's wounds.
Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants one unexpected event crashing into another with no pattern or reason and then you finally reach a point around my age where you spend more time than ever looking back. Why did this happen? Look where that led? You see the shape of things.
There's a vintage which comes with age and experience.
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard there's nothing you can do.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to be an artist.
There are three species of government: republican monarchical and despotic.
Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself your body your mind your spirit. Then get back to work.
No matter what has happened you too have the power to enjoy yourself.
Fathers in today's modern families can be so many things.
In the first place God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
The law in its majestic equality forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges to beg in the streets and to steal bread.
I come from that society and there is a common thread specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family and the unconditional love for one's children.
For exercise I now run with my chocolate Lab puppy Oscar.
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future or a different past.
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth the delight the ecstasy of it you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
Patriotism when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet though he has never written a line in all his life.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
For in reason all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
Being a father at a later age is different from when I had my other two daughters when I was in my 20s and 30s. If you're in your 60s and you're with the kid every day you're dealing with the mind of a child so it opens up that childishness in you again.
This is what I asked for and in this day and age that's what actually goes on. But what hurts me the most is that I work just as hard as any other actress around my age like Scarlett Johansson but I just don't get the opportunities that they get because people are so distracted by the mess that I created in my life.
I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age who are still in the process of forming themselves as women and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.
Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.
Without art the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
I worked at an ice cream parlor called Chadwicks. We wore old-timey outfits and had to bang a drum play a kazoo and sing 'Happy Birthday' to people while giving them free birthday sundaes. Lots of ice cream scooping and $1 tips.
Christians are supposed not merely to endure change nor even to profit by it but to cause it.
Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Take your message of equality of achievement take your message of economic dependency take your message of enslaving the entrepreneurial will and spirit of the American people somewhere else.
For me nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.
Teaching kids about health and fitness is important to me. It's about being fit for life.
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs once launched never disappear. Actually a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!
When wealth is lost nothing is lost; when health is lost something is lost; when character is lost all is lost.
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.
The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
If you are tired of partisanship over patriotism you need to vote for a change in direction.
The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes packaged cake mixes frozen dinners and instant cameras teach patience to its young?
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe seldom executed.
Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.
My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.
I've dated men my age younger than me and older. The only difference is the young ones are quicker at taking out the garbage.
When a noble life has prepared old age it is not decline that it reveals but the first days of immortality.
Art is not a study of positive reality it is the seeking for ideal truth.
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history the stage of rule by brute force.
The truth is in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
It seems essential in relationships and all tasks that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.
The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like although that was part of it. Primarily it was how it worked. To design something really well you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something chew it up not just quickly swallow it.
Education n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way.
An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
A pun is the lowest form of humor unless you thought of it yourself.
Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
As a private lawyer I could bill $750 an hour but I don't.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times always with the same person.
Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood musical roots buried in the darkest soil.
Across the country military families are facing dire financial circumstances due to longer than expected tours of duties. They are being penalized for their patriotism - no one should have to choose between doing right by their country and doing right by their families.
Time is too slow for those who wait too swift for those who fear too long for those who grieve too short for those who rejoice but for those who love time is eternity.
What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
Winning is not everything but wanting to win is.
The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
As a small businessperson you have no greater leverage than the truth.
Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?
I've been dating since I was fifteen. I'm exhausted. Where is he?
Designing is my hobby. If I didn't do what I do for a living - at some point when I don't do this for a living - I'll probably just do design work. I love finding really special pieces of furniture.
To the uneducated an A is just three sticks.
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.
I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school.
Give a man health and a course to steer and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.
Unfortunately what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.
Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love a little affection a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house that's what it means.
Men tend to feel threatened; women tend to feel guilty.
My music my songs are 100 percent inspired by girl power.
Peace cannot be achieved through violence it can only be attained through understanding.
A poem can have an impact but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances.
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.
Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice.
It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.
What goes on in Europe concerns us greatly because if Europe comes apart the E.U. comes apart then you're going to have enormous impact on America that's a very big trading partner of ours and people own securities around the world in this day and age.
'Dallas' hit a chord back in the late Seventies and Eighties because it was the age of greed: here you have this unapologetic character who is mean and nasty and ruthless and does it all with an evil grin. I think people related to JR back then because we all have someone we know exactly like him. Everyone in the world knows a JR.
At the School of Visual Arts in New York you can get your degree in Net art which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.
The chief condition on which life health and vigor depend on is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties increases its energy and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.
The poet may be used as a barometer but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.
God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts.
I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well at least I ain't no educated fool.
It's not that our family has no taste it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent.
Rejoicing in our joy not suffering over our suffering makes someone a friend.
When a thought takes one's breath away a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
After the chaos and carnage of September 11th it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.
Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.
Crave for a thing you will get it. Renounce the craving the object will follow you by itself.
The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress with its trials and its errors its successes and its setbacks can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
Sites need to be able to interact in one single universal space.
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.
Government of the people by the people for the people shall not perish from the Earth.
You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.
I was being taken around by a press agent at the Venice Film Festival at age 18. Was it fun? Sure. But it was a dangerous path to be walking on as far as having a substantive life. Because the casualty rate at the Venice Film Festival for 18-year-olds? High.
Whatever our souls are made of his and mine are the same.
Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?
Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person.
In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.
Appearance is something you should definitely consider when you're going out. Have your girlfriend clip your nails or something like that.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
What one has not experienced one will never understand in print.
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Once I got married and had kids I moved away from romantic roles because it seemed wrong to have my 3-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else.
For students today only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.
Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.
An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.
These endless legal challenges that define elections in New York are a joke in this country and they are the reason why it is so expensive or one of the reasons it's so expensive to run here and why so many people decide not to run.
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
Men are different. When they are in love they may also have other girlfriends.
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred jealousy boastfulness disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words it is war minus the shooting.
Our technological powers increase but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.
A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
We were really grown up for our age and it was an incredible special band.
I never played much golf as a kid. I caddied quite a bit but never got serious into golf until about age 15.
Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.
In times of great stress or adversity it's always best to keep busy to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.
Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee the small child and the smiling faces. Smell the rain and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential and fight for your dreams.
ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so one could blame the companies but really economically they have no incentive to change things very much because they're getting the business.
The good news is that according to the Obama administration the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that according to the Obama administration you're rich.
My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.
In the practical world of computing it is rather uncommon that a program once it performs correctly and satisfactorily remains unchanged forever.
My mom is going to kill me for talking about sleeping with people. But I don't want to put myself in the position where I'm in a monogamous relationship right now. I'm not dating just one person. 'Sex and the City' changed everything for me because those girls would sleep with so many people.
It looks to me to be obvious that the whole world cannot eat an American diet.
When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
By all means let's be open-minded but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.
When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning not the result of ignorance or accident its children will become the foundation of a new race.
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
We need a data network that can easily carry voice instead of what we have today a voice network struggling to carry data.
My wife and I have so much fun when we travel and find anything like stray cats and squirrels.
As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar it will cease to be popular.
I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves because then they just get labeled.
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood all the work into middle age and all the regrets into old age.
O love if I regret the age when one savors you it is not for the hour of pleasure but for the one that follows it.
Love is the hardest habit to break and the most difficult to satisfy.
Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Since love grows within you so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.
In computing turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
I did not become a vegetarian for my health I did it for the health of the chickens.
We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back.
I think Australian food is probably some of the best in the world.
I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks they are always locking three.
My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.
People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
Man becomes man only by his intelligence but he is man only by his heart.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.
The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.
Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love of kindness of understanding of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb because it is through us - through our brains our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space.
I am about to be married and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest.
Thomas Jefferson once said 'We should never judge a president by his age only by his works.' And ever since he told me that I stopped worrying.
I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.
Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.
People are unjust to anger - it can be enlivening and a lot of fun.
Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.
Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school we will pay for you to obtain a college degree.
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
The World is my country all mankind are my brethren and to do good is my religion.
I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing; you're screwed'.
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
If I go on a diet and work out I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.
Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
Experience has shown and a true philosophy will always show that a vast perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
It is incumbent upon each of us to improve spending and savings practices to ensure our own individual financial security and preserve the collective economic well-being of our great society.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition there are already enough people to do that.
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The secret of a successful marriage is not to be at home too much.
Morality and its victim the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible more criminal than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?
Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me give me liberty or give me death!
Growing up I've enjoyed hunting with my father.
Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.
I chose my wife as she did her wedding gown for qualities that would wear well.
Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it.
Old age is a tyrant who forbids under pain of death the pleasures of youth.
The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
You have to be desirable. And that's why so many woman of my age or even younger are pushed to Botox and plastic surgery all the things that people say 'Why do women do this?' Where do you go in your 50s in your career?
Love possesses not nor will it be possessed for love is sufficient unto love.
Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking but all in harmony together.
There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.
It's a never ending battle of making your cars better and also trying to be better yourself.
I do two things. I design mobile computers and I study brains.
For me it's all about moderation. I don't kick things out of my diet like carbs. But I'm not going to eat fast food.
When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment it will be done!
All who call on God in true faith earnestly from the heart will certainly be heard and will receive what they have asked and desired.
People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.
Before I refuse to take your questions I have an opening statement.
Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.
Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health but only itself as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.
What is free time? I'm a single mother. My free moments are filled with loving my little girl.
I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.
No matter how much cats fight there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight nothing which is more important than his own personal safety is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
He's going to be around a long long time if his body holds up. That's always a concern with a lot of players because of how much they play. A lot of guys can't handle it. But it looks like he can.
I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in with kids and adults they are often on two different universes.
I'm surrounded by very powerful women and very progressive men.
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
They that have lived a single day have lived an age.
Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.
America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars adding machines and other artifacts but nothing is proved by such attributions.
It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.
It was a time when only the dead smiled happy in their peace.
If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
Within 10 years it will be impossible to travel to the North Pole by dog team. There will be too much open water.
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
At this point I don't get hired a lot because people don't think I could finance a movie.
When women love us they forgive us everything even our crimes; when they do not love us they give us credit for nothing not even our virtues.
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
Look I don't want to wax philosophic but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs you've got to jump around a lot for life is the very opposite of death and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully or you're not alive.
When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation he offered to touch-up my X-rays.
A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to him. And then you gotta get rid of all that macho crap that they pick up from beer commercials. And then there's my personal favorite the male ego.
Movies are a complicated collision of literature theatre music and all the visual arts.
I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.
The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.
What other people may find in poetry or art museums I find in the flight of a good drive.
When I look in the mirror I see the girl I was when I was growing up with braces crooked teeth a baby face and a skinny body.
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
We virtually never feel our age but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.
At a certain age death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.
Say what you will 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
I hate vacations. If you can build buildings why sit on the beach?
Not having to own a car has made me realize what a waste of time the automobile is.
My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.
John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said well Maureen I'm on borrowed time.
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
I always thought we had an environmental problem but I hadn't realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left.
We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.
Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.
A leader is one who knows the way goes the way and shows the way.
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
A pregnant woman facing the most dire circumstances must be able to count on her doctor to do what is medically necessary to protect her from serious physical harm.
My mom brought me up to believe that my talent is a gift and a blessing.
I've always been an animal lover. I've grown up with dogs my whole life. I think that is what helped me get the role on 'Lassie' I was comfortable around the dog where many of the kids were afraid or intimidated by Lassie.
Parenting is one of the hardest jobs on earth.
It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.
I don't know the key to success but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Personally I'm an advocate for short engagements. Long sometimes means there is a reason for it. Two years engaged and no wedding I'd be upset.
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'.
Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.
Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh how beautiful' and sitting in the shade.
Sadly embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years.