How Quotes

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.

I don't really care about how I look.

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

I've been thinking a lot about space. It was one of those slow-motion realisations how little we are, how far we are from everything else in our solar system. This idea of distance started kind of haunting me. How do you go forth and accomplish things but not end up leaving everything you started out with in the dust?

The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving.

How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?

How many times have your parents told you not to do things, and the next thing you know, you go do it? And you realized you shouldn't have done it.

Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

There's been a lot of simple vilification of right-wing people. It's really easy to say, 'Well, you're Christian, you're anti-this and that, and I hate you.' But to me, it's more interesting to say, 'What is this person like and how do they really think?'

I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.

All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school - my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.

How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

I know something about how to build constituencies in an independent way.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

When the darkness comes, keep an eye on the light - whatever that is for you - no matter how far away it seems.

I've had the luxury of playing golf around the world, and I've spent a lot of time evaluating how to play all kinds of courses.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

How can my son not be straight after all I've said and done for him?

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?

What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time.