How Quotes

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

It is not our mistakes that define who we are; it is how we recover from those mistakes.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

You know those movies where the people in the audience are screaming, 'Don't go in that door!' because you know the killer is there? Well, it is the same thing with this debt. We know how this ends.

A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.

I like women, but you can't always trust them. Some of them are big liars, like this one woman I met who had a dog. I asked her her dog's name and then I asked, 'Does he bite?' and she said, 'No.' And I said, 'So how does he eat?' Liar!

Instead of going to college, I spent my time out on the road learning how to be a better musician.

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

I can no longer walk. I can no longer swim. But I'm lucky when I see how animals suffer.

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Time is very precious to me. I don't know how much I have left and I have some things that I would like to say. Hopefully, at the end, I will have said something that will be important to other people too.

France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.

How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-building; don't police the world. That's conservative, it's Republican, it's pro-American - it follows the founding fathers. And, besides, it follows the Constitution.

Vanity is something that will only get in the way of doing your best work, and ultimately if you're truly vain you care more about your work than how you look in your work. I actually consider myself a pretty vain guy when it comes to that.

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?

How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

We had a $10 billion budget deficit when we got here in January of 2003. We cut that budget deficit; we did not raise taxes; we came back in '05, and we had an $8 billion surplus. That's how fast it can happen.

I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.

The very fact that we are having a national conversation about what we should eat, that we are struggling with the question about what the best diet is, is symptomatic of how far we have strayed from the natural conditions that gave rise to our species, from the simple act of eating real, whole, fresh food.

A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.