How Quotes

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

Know how to behave at a buffet. Take a clean plate for a second helping.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

I'm not an example for how people should live their lives. Never in my life would I ever set out to be an example for people on how to live their lives. If you need an example for how to live, then you just shouldn't have been born. Straight up.

I don't care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what's not right is from experience.

How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom.

A comedian needs to have his own filters, needs to know his audience, how far he can push things.

You can be self-empowered and still learning about how you think about things daily.

I also believe that government has no business telling us how we should live our lives. I think our lifestyle choices should be left up to us. What we do in our private lives is none of the government's business. That position rules out the Republican Party for me.

Rather than saying, 'My checking account is a wreck,' change it to 'I will learn how to track my spending and balance my checkbook.'

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

I've always been known for bold flavors and rustic cooking, but there is another side to me. As you evolve as a cook, you understand life and how serious it is. There comes a point where there's got to be a better balance.

I don't know how I got to this point but it must be as a result of everything that has come before so if I were to change something, I might not be at this point now.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

By helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

I mean, there are only so many notes. What makes something original is how you put it together.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

My ex-wife, she really didn't like the material that I did. And that's something I regret, that I wasn't more careful about making sure that she was O.K. with it. I just sort of didn't ask. So that's how that goes.

The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall.

I know a lot of celebrities who are perfectly happy to put their name to something and then leave it at that because the money is good, but I need to have complete control over how something is going to look if my name is going to be attached to it.

I don't see how a young American can vote for, well, can vote for a Democrat.

How weird it was to drive streets I knew so well. What a different perspective.

No matter how widely spread out the films are, how different, you still are you.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

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.