How Quotes

I am shocked at how much time I spend in the White House. I mean, you know, for people on the outside, the idea of going to the White House for a meeting must seem like the most important, serious, even glamorous kind of thing to do.

Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.

I've never sat there and plotted out how I was going to become successful or famous.

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.

It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.

The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.

Know how to drive safely when it's raining or when it's snowing. The two conditions are different.

Julia progresses from cradle to grave, showing how government makes every good thing in her life possible. The weak economy, high unemployment, falling wages, rising gas prices, the national debt, the insolvency of entitlements - all these are fictionally assumed away in a cartoon that is produced by a president who wants us to forget about them.

Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.

People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don't know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione.

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

I'm entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they're thinking and who they are and who's hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what's the story, really?

The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.

We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

I can see how the young girls really get hurt when their moms are critical, or vice versa when they're overly critical of their moms. It can be so painful.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

I judge people on how they smell, not how they look.

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes.

Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.

Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view?

A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play.

We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it travels inside wires.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

I feel bad about my outlook, how I feel about people and society, and that I'll never be part of society the way I should.

How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

Adoption has been a part of my life and a part of my family, so it was how I wanted to start. It felt natural and right to me.