True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
At a certain point I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.
There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents and only one for birthday presents you know.
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for go live with a car battery.
I love those who can smile in trouble who can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink but they whose heart is firm and whose conscience approves their conduct will pursue their principles unto death.
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
Charity should begin at home but should not stay there.
Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.
Circumstances are beyond human control but our conduct is in our own power.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
I didn't want to be the typical teen idol. I didn't want to be Leif Garrett. I didn't want to be Shaun Cassidy David Cassidy or Parker Stevenson. I wanted to do my own thing.
Men are able to trust one another knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.
A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case a suffragette who had never married. After her death he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.
When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.
A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet.
For me forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?
The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.
It was so cold today that I saw a dog chasing a cat and the dog was walking.
Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.
It is true that I entered parliament at the age of 23 and have now been representing the people of my constituency for over twenty years.
Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.
(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.
Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.
I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams and half the time they come true.
The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
Worry is spiritual short sight. Its cure is intelligent faith.
I think exercise tests us in so many ways our skills our hearts our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition and it can serve us all well as adult athletes.
I deepen my experience of God through prayer meditation and forgiveness.
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.
I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.
We're born alone we live alone we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided great progress in the treatment cure and prevention of disease can occur.
I've seen many many movies over the years and there are only a few that suddenly inspire you so much that you want to continue to make films.
There was no "before" the beginning of our universe because once upon a time there was no time.
Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.
Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?
Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interest you.
Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.
It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education health for people that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene.
It's time for a 21st-century retirement age. If 40 is the new 20 and 50 is the new 30 why shouldn't 70 be the new 65? The last time Washington politicians tinkered ever so gingerly with the government-sanctioned retirement age Ronald Reagan was in office and Generation X-ers were all in diapers.
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.
I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent and there were 150 people waiting for me all wearing masks of my face.
I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that you know. I'm one of those people.
I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.
Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.
If you accept the expectations of others especially negative ones then you never will change the outcome.
Great companies in the way they work start with great leaders.
All my life my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
Success is a science; if you have the conditions you get the result.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.
Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
I think if you exercise your state of mind - my state of mind - is usually more at ease ready for more mental challenges. Once I get the physical stuff out of the way it always seems like I have more calmness and better self-esteem.
A single rose can be my garden a single friend my world.
Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had with a lot of groups that use humor people don't realize there's a lot of craft behind the comedy.
Some people see things that are and ask Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.
In this age which believes that there is a short cut to everything the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is in the long run the easiest.
Craziest thing I've done for love is getting married. I think it's crazy. I think it's crazy crazy crazy. I'm never going to say I wouldn't do it again but I have to make sure it's love and not settling for the 'I have to do this by a certain age' which is kind of what I did.
It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.
You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party and I'm thinking 'Hey I've still got it.'
I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body.
Keywords : everything, body
You know Willie Wonka said it best: we are the makers of dreams the dreamers of dreams.
Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.
So I've broadened the fitness concept to make it one of moderation and balance.
To hear some men talk of the government you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation and kept the planets in their places.
I believe it is important for people to create a healthy mental environment in which to accomplish daily tasks.
A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.
Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears not to oust them.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
Most men love money and security more and creation and construction less as they get older.
If you want to make beautiful music you must play the black and the white notes together.
We the People recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me a freedom without a commitment to others a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism is unworthy of our founding ideals and those who died in their defense.
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder with a dash of the dictionary.
People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
Faith is not belief without proof but trust without reservation.
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.
I want to be part of the resurgence of things that are tangible beautiful and soulful rather than just give in to the digital age. But when I talk to people about this they just say 'Yeah I know what you mean' and stare at their mobiles.
I've always wanted to be like the Hollywood Golden Age actors.
To keep the heart unwrinkled to be hopeful kindly cheerful reverent that is to triumph over old age.
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are.
For changes to be of any true value they've got to be lasting and consistent.
My father was always telling himself no one was perfect not even my mother.
The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And of course sometimes the government confirms their opinion.
What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things.
He is happiest be he king or peasant who finds peace in his home.
We can change our lives. We can do have and be exactly what we wish.
Before I met my husband I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.
One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.
Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.
Time is the longest distance between two places.
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
To us family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
No one's ever achieved financial fitness with a January resolution that's abandoned by February.
Do not trust all men but trust men of worth; the former course is silly the latter a mark of prudence.
There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.
There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical questioning and often angry patriotism.
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way and I just don't have those smarts. I think with age and time it will change but I can't obsess about it.
Anyone that has come to America past the age of eighteen will be able to understand when I say that you can never shake your accent.
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age but they die young.
Photography takes an instant out of time altering life by holding it still.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
However successful you are there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is at bottom no design no purpose no evil no good nothing but blind pitiless indifference.
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth beauty liberty and equality are of infinite value but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.
If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it that's the time to hold your tongue.
When the government violates the people's rights insurrection is for the people and for each portion of the people the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
When men and women agree it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want - the want of money.
I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.
Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.
Globalization as defined by rich people like us is a very nice thing you are talking about the Internet you are talking about cell phones you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.
When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.
In modern war you will die like a dog for no good reason.
The worst thing in this world next to anarchy is government.
At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.
'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.
I don't know the first real thing about the dating game. I don't know how to talk to a specific person and connect. I just think you have to go to person by person and do the best you can with people in general.
Art has to move you and design does not unless it's a good design for a bus.
Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials but the voters of this country.
Obama's health care plan will be written by a committee whose head John Conyers says he doesn't understand it. It'll be passed by Congress that has not read it signed by a president who smokes funded by a Treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes overseen by a Surgeon General who is obese and financed by a country that's nearly broke. What could possibly go wrong?
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
Cagey trial lawyers have figured out there's a pretty good likelihood their case - no matter what its merit - will literally get its day in court because of favorable judges.
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
I love you when you bow in your mosque kneel in your temple pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion and it is the spirit.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
For a successful technology reality must take precedence over public relations for Nature cannot be fooled.
If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business because we'd be cynical. Well that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family a smile as I pass someone on the street.
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart I shall say that life is good.
Men even when alone lighten their labors by song however rude it may be.
There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.
There are three species of government: republican monarchical and despotic.
The stars shall fade away the sun himself Grow dim with age and nature sink in years But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth Unhurt amidst the wars of elements The wrecks of matter and the crush of worlds.
My parents got married late and they had kids late so I never felt a social or cultural thing to be married or pregnant or a homeowner by a certain age.
We incorporated new tastes and flavors into our kids' diets from a very early age which helped to develop their palates and prevented them from becoming picky eaters. We don't buy junk food and give them options of fresh fruit yogurt raw almonds or dried whole grain cereals for snack time.
Anger if not restrained is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
All things must change to something new to something strange.
My boyfriend and I broke up. He wanted to get married and I didn't want him to.
Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake zucchini bread and pumpkin pie.
No man who worships education has got the best out of education Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
Human beings who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Pray in your family daily that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God.
The greatest gift of life is friendship and I have received it.
I was never a Certified Public Accountant. I just had a degree in accounting. It would require passing a test which I would not have been able to do.
All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being and certainly in almost every newborn baby that there is an active will toward health an impulse towards growth or towards the actualization.
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again this time more intelligently.
I have been committed to carrying out my duties in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable rules of ethics and canons of conduct.
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.
Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.
Every goal every action every thought every feeling one experiences whether it be consciously or unconsciously known is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.
A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.
Just as the soul fills the body so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body so God gives food to the world.
I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child but in all reality I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society.
Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while you don't do things right once in a while you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately so is losing.
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.
The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60 saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'
I think from a very young age I always have this desire to perform.
Every time you get angry you poison your own system.
Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design manufacturing layout processes and procedures.
A computer once beat me at chess but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
My father who was from a wealthy family and highly educated a lawyer Yale and Columbia walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother a seventh grade graduate who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could.
This is one small step for a man one giant leap for mankind.
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business protecting all in their legal pursuits granting exclusive privileges to none.
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
You don't make a poem with ideas but with words.
If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.
If we had any nerve at all if we had any real balls as a society or whatever you need whatever quality you need real character we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society righteously.
Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.
War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.
Experience is the child of thought and thought is the child of action.
I consider my mom and all my sisters my friends.
I haven't eaten at a McDonald's since I became President.
All men have an instinct for conflict: at least all healthy men.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
Keywords : literature, perhaps
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense without the grace of genius can deal with successfully.
My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings if not with what I went through to learn.
I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse for any reason whenever it's possible.
A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me I'm afraid of widths.
When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential.
Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
Gay marriage is the last bastion of to me as a legal ceremonial sentimental and religious side it's one of the last steps. Retaining your job being one of the earlier steps like not getting kicked out of your job because you're gay.
A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.
You can never quit. Winners never quit and quitters never win.
Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.
I have an almost religious zeal not for technology per se but for the Internet which is for me the nervous system of mother Earth which I see as a living creature linking up.
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
Friends are generally of the same sex for when men and women agree it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.
As human beings our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
The one thing that unites all human beings regardless of age gender religion or ethnic background is that we all believe we are above-average drivers.
God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age some by sickness some by war some by justice.
I think my passion is misinterpreted as anger sometimes. And I don't think people are ready for the message that I'm delivering and delivering with a sense of violent love.
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
I can't imagine dating a boy meeting him only outside the home. What's a home and family for if it's not the center of one's life?
I started dieting. I dieted dieted dieted and tried all the diets and I would lose and then I would go back to normal eating and would put it on and then some.
If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars he or she should learn something about fieldwork something about bibliography something about how to carry out library research and something about how to publish that research.
I met Woz when I was 13 at a friend's garage. He was about 18. He was like the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends because we shared an interest in computer and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together.
It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Keywords : better, experiment
If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.
I was raised Catholic but my father's people were Methodist so we went to both churches.
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
We wander for distraction but we travel for fulfillment.
Keywords : wander,distraction
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails and then asks you not to kill him.
All is connected no one thing can change by itself.
For the merchant even honesty is a financial speculation.
Food can become such a point of anxiety - not because it's food but just because you have anxiety. That's how eating disorders develop.
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are we must know our mothers names.
You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.
I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this; it just doesn't feel right at my age.
My mother was 45 when she had me so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others and the delight in the recognition.
If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
I started on an Apple II which I had bought at the very end of 1978 for half of my annual income. I made $4500 a year and I spent half of it on the computer.
While I thought that I was learning how to live I have been learning how to die.
And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.
Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching and I do a lot of it.
World War II was the last government program that really worked.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.
I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
The will to succeed is important but what's more important is the will to prepare.
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.
As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.
An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.
All women's issues are to some degree men's issues and all men's issues are to some degree women's issues because when either sex wins unilaterally both sexes lose.
Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.
I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
I've reached the age of self-knowledge so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world.
You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry terribly angry about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask What's wrong with him how much will it cost and when can I pick him up?
Even when I work with computers with high technology I always try to put in the touch of the hand.
Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really really hard and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard.
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
We are living in 1937 and our universities I suggest are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization education graduation for a century - for several centuries.
I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
Conservative n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.
I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with but you can't go back to them and be one of them again no matter how hard you try.
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.
People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.
All growth is a leap in the dark a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes.
My mother thinks I could have even run a larger company.
Success for me its to raise happy healthy human beings.
Women and cats will do as they please and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.
Death comes not to the living soul nor age to the loving heart.
My first job was in retail at the age of 14 and I have worked in the industry ever since.
Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party you don't see somebody's brain. The initial contact has to be the sniffing.
Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.
I need protein from food rather than just protein supplements. I changed my diet.
Population when unchecked goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.
As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control that things will flow as they will and that you will flow with them to your great delight and benefit.
Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing and if you are good enough at it the money will come.
Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost and was found is saved from being lost again.
I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.
Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.
Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.
Give me a couple of years and I'll make that actress an overnight success.
Believe me my children have more stamina than a power station.
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today even for the same performance.
Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.
This generation has given up on growth. They're just hoping for survival.
We travel together passengers on a little spaceship dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil all committed for our safety to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
Of course I do have a slight advantage over the rest of you. It helps in a pinch to be able to remind your bride that you gave up a throne for her.
Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
Starting a new retirement plan for those below a certain age is something tens of millions of Americans have already been through at work.
When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you from her or from the meeting of your sparks.
The loftier the building the deeper must the foundation be laid.
I'd like to grow up and be beautiful. I know it doesn't matter but it doesn't hurt.
I just think people have a lot of fiction. But you know I mean the real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean the real story is actually probably pretty boring right? I mean we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember you have within you the strength the patience and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
The aim of life is to live and to live means to be aware joyously drunkenly serenely divinely aware.
A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
But when I was a teenager the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise.
Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people but put your full trust only in God.
A man's got two shots for jewelry: a wedding ring and a watch. The watch is a lot easier to get on and off than a wedding ring.
I firmly believe that we can have a healthy environment and a sustainable timber industry.
To one who has faith no explanation is necessary. To one without faith no explanation is possible.
Small- and medium-sized businesses need access to a diverse range of finance options including non-bank lending. These new forms of finance are still small in scale today but they should over time bring additional choice and greater competition to the lending market.
Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning there was no rose.
And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.
Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood the best in a marriage the kind of people we are trying to become.
To his dog every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
Nothing ever comes to one that is worth having except as a result of hard work.
Invention is the talent of youth as judgment is of age.
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.
The more you praise and celebrate your life the more there is in life to celebrate.
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad.
Dreaming or awake we perceive only events that have meaning to us.
This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax airlines and we don't subsidize we don't want to subsidize a national rail system that has environmental impact.
Faith is not something to grasp it is a state to grow into.
Three years after starting by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects we'd finally cobbled together our low budget film.
Forgiveness is the giving and so the receiving of life.
In our home there was always prayer - aloud proud and unapologetic.
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
As a physician I know many doctors want to utilize new technology but they find the cost prohibitive.
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
Indeed - judicious consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements learning space and listening carefully are my goals.
If a dog jumps into your lap it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing it is because your lap is warmer.
Nearly all men can stand adversity but if you want to test a man's character give him power.
We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Before my teen years I was losing my hearing pretty quickly and I was getting very very angry. I was beginning to become an angry person because of that.
Just trust yourself then you will know how to live.
On my wedding day. I didn't want a natural blushing-bride look - I had a full-on hairdo and red lips. I thought it would be disingenuous to do the whole virginal look so even though I had the white dress I had pink net underneath.
High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future; self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself.
Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.