How Quotes

More than any audience in the world, Americans will cross their arms, stare at you and say, 'OK, whaddya got?' - no matter how many times you've proven it to them.

Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper.

The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the right thing; I want to be a voice with them, among them.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

I have so much chaos in my life, it's become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they're wrong.

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.

Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know."

No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.

Working in this industry, I have been exposed to so many products and now realize more than ever how cruel and unnecessary animal testing is.

I think that there's no doubt that as I see friends, families, children of gay couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how I think about these issues.

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we've come. And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

You know how old I am? I'm so old, I remember when Letterman used to be funny and it was presidents who were serious. That's how old I am.

I think getting married gave me a focus. It gave me a focus and direction I want to have in my life. And I think having another person that you make such a purposeful bond with has given me the opportunity to see how that can be with all the other aspects of my life.

Someone's got to be interested in how I feel, just because I'm here and I'm real.

What exactly is it that humans do that is specifically human? There has to be something. How odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people.

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

But when one believes that you've been appointed by God for a particular mission in history, you have to be very careful about that, how you speak about that. Where is the self-reflection in that? Where is the humility in that?

You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap!

It's fun to be blond, and it's almost difficult to remember how I used to look with my proper hair color.