How Quotes

A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?

I have never been more proud of the United States than I am this year. We have elected an African-American president. We have the stellar Michelle Obama setting the standard for American women. I simply cannot say it enough: look how far we've come.

When I was 13, I asked for a guitar. And that's how I really started explaining my point of view.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

I think you have to know how you feel when you're sad and it's healthy to mourn if a relationship ends.

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

We need to go everywhere. There is not one county in this state, I don't care how far west you go, that doesn't have Democrats. We have to be proud of who we are.

How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?

No matter how prosaic something is that you've done and been a part of again and again, there is so much more there that you haven't seen.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less.

I don't know the first real thing about the dating game. I don't know how to talk to a specific person and connect. I just think you have to go to person by person and do the best you can with people in general.

Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

Know how to treat frostbite until you can get indoors.

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?

If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left?

Always keep your smile. That's how I explain my long life.

I used to think that it didn't make any difference how far you ran if you had a good, strong musculoskeletal system and no underlying cardiovascular problems.

Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are.

You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow.

Through my travels, I find inspiration in street style and how young women create their individual looks and identity.

What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, but 6mm shells.