How Quotes

Let me say this as clearly as I can: No matter how sharp a grievance or how deep a hurt, there is no justification for killing innocents.

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.

How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?

If you're married, and you have a wife, and you really love your wife, is it good enough to only say to your wife 'I love her' the day you get married? Or should you tell her every single day when you wake up and every opportunity? And that's how I feel about my relationship with Jesus Christ is that it is the most important thing in my life.

If I'm teaching girls that do love to make cookies and do love fashion - that they can use math as a part of that - you think that's me saying, come on girls you belong in the kitchen, you belong shopping? Or, do you think it's me showing them how math is part of all their life, even the part they thought it had nothing to do with?

In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.

All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day.

I've learned that people latch onto labels and stereotypes. There was a period when I was asked in every single interview how I liked being the new Frank Sinatra... I think people will soon realize that I do a lot more than interpret old songs.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

As long as I live, I will never forget that day 21 years ago when I raised my hand and took the oath of citizenship. Do you know how proud I was? I was so proud that I walked around with an American flag around my shoulders all day long.

When our most important issue is the debt that we're piling on our children and grandchildren, I think it's pretty helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate who has actually managed billions of dollars and knows how to cut billions of dollars.

One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That's how the human species has done as well as it has.

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.

The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

How can we help President Obama?

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.

It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting.

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!