How Quotes

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

As my dad said, you have an obligation to leave the world better than how you found it. And he also reminded us to be givers in this life, and not takers.

Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it's not about the solvency of Social Security.

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

I love the look of planes and the idea of how a plane flies. The more I learn about it the better I feel; while I still may not like it, I have a sense of what is really happening.

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

I just think it's shocking how many of these young people wind up in prison and they get turned into hardcore criminals because they had a possession of a very small amount of controlled substance.

When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.

As soon as someone like me or David Lynch pops up everyone says hallelujah, how weird.

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

To be a good loser is to learn how to win.

Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness.

It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.

The desire to do different things was the main motivator that made me leave late night because I'd been there seven years. The combination of an entrepreneurial desire to see how far I could push my success and a short attention span. But now I've done other things. And I'm sort of ready to sit somewhere and sit in the same place for a while.

They've got this crazy actor who's 82 years old up there in a suit. I was a mayor, and they're probably thinking I know how to give a speech, but even when I was mayor I never gave speeches. I gave talks.

I don't have any sentimental notion about how people are going to remember me.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't?

Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

Look for what's missing. Many advisors can tell a President how to improve what's proposed or what's gone amiss. Few are able to see what isn't there.

Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

Adopted kids are such a pain - you have to teach them how to look like you.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.

It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

Obama used to be a community organizer. He knows how to build communities.