How Quotes

I know I'm not a coal miner, but I do long hours and I never complain, and there is nowhere else I'd rather be. So, yeah, that's how I'd define myself. I want to do it right, and prove people wrong once and for all about the myth of child stars.

Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.

People do want to know the personal things. How far is too far to go with personal lives?

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth?

Most of the people who are in elective office in Washington, D.C., they have held public office before. How's that workin' for you?

A leader's most important decisions are about people. Who do you put in which jobs? How long do you leave them in a job?

If you can't laugh at yourself, then how can you laugh at anybody else? I think people see the human side of you when you do that.

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

I know how to run a nationally paced campaign.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

It's so interesting how success hits people and how they react to it.

How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It's simple. I drink the blood of young runaways.

I didn't even want to sing, honestly. I started thinking about how long the journey was, how far all of us had come - me and Jessica Sanchez, Hollie Cavanagh and Josh Ledet and everybody. It's insane, man. It's not as easy as you think.

There was one thing my daddy wouldn't tolerate in any shape, form or fashion, and that was being unkind or rude to somebody. That was just very important to my folks. And as it turns out, that was a legacy that he left me that money can't buy, is how to be able to treat people.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?

Most of the time I liked school and got good grades. In junior high, though, I hit a stumbling block with math - I used to come home and cry because of how frustrated I was! But after a few good teachers and a lot of perseverance, I ended up loving math and even choosing it as a major when I got to college.

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.

The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.