How Quotes

In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Well, I want you all to know that I'm keeping a chart.

Even if you plan a marriage and a family, you are never quite prepared for the reality versus how you imagined it. In a lot of ways it's better, and in a lot of ways it's worse. That's life, right?

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it's a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

The secret to modern life is finding the measure in time management. I have two kids, career and I travel, and I don't think my life is any different than most couples. The most valuable commodity now for many people is time and how to parcel that out.

He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination.

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.

Instead of leading the world by how much we borrow, it's time that we make sure we lead the world in how much we build and create and invest.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

I realized, 'Yo, I can't do anything in moderation. I don't know how.'

You know when you're young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Hymns can carry you into the future.

The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

I think scars are like battle wounds - beautiful, in a way. They show what you've been through and how strong you are for coming out of it.

It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.

After the Republican Party did everything that Colin Powell says it needs to do to grow, and nominated the very kind of candidate he wanted in 2008, what did Powell do? He endorsed Obama! So according to the Drive-Bys and David Gergen, Republicans should let somebody who campaigned and voted for Obama, tell us how to build our party.

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

How many people here have telekenetic powers? Raise my hand.

How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.