How Quotes

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

It's fascinating how life works.

Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.

The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see.

People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

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.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

When you're dealing with machines or anything that you build, it either works or it doesn't, no matter how good of a salesman you are.

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

But we should not lose sight of how far we are coming and what a big hole we were left by George W. Bush.

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.