Because Quotes

I don't believe that human beings can achieve ultimate enlightenment, because humans have flaws.

There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within.

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

Of course voting is useful. But then again, I don't put a big glow to it. Voting is about as essential as washing yourself. It's something you're supposed to do. Now, you can't go around bragging, expecting to get props because you voted. That's stupid.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

I'm a bit of a night owl because that's when I feel the most creative and alive.

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.

I just play because I love playing and I try and take as many wickets as I can.

I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.

You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

We've demonstrated a strong track record of being very disciplined with the use of our cash. We don't let it burn a hole in our pocket, we don't allow it to motivate us to do stupid acquisitions. And so I think that we'd like to continue to keep our powder dry, because we do feel that there are one or more strategic opportunities in the future.

Negroes' problem is that they do not have their egos. That's why our churches end up having a white service, because our preacher is not arrogant enough to take God's word, so he have to go and get some white fellow's agenda and put it in his church.

Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

I was always suspicious and looking over my shoulder because that's how I was raised.

If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.

Don't Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.

It's hard to do it because you gotta look people in the eye and tell 'em they're irresponsible and lazy. And who's gonna wanna do that? Because that's what poverty is, ladies and gentlemen. In this country, you can succeed if you get educated and work hard. Period. Period.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.

Well, you know, a lot of people look at the negative things, the things that they did wrong and - which I do. But I like to stress on the things I did right, because there are certain things that I like to look at from a positive standpoint that are just positive reinforcement.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal.

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.

Because I stopped dieting already six months ago, and I think it's important to bring out a book like this and you are there a year later and say look, I'm still like this.

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

Well, when I was younger, I lied all the time, because once you understand the power of lying, it's really like magic because you transform reality for people.

When you're the presidential nominee you get to pick whomever you choose to be on the ticket, and that person gets to say yes or no because, obviously, it's a very important decision.