How Quotes

Know where to find the sunrise and sunset times and note how the sky looks at those times, at least once.

To understand someone, find out how he spends his money.

It seems to me that one thing people do over and over again is try to figure out how to get married, stay married, fall in love, how to rekindle all this stuff. It seems to me to be a pretty eternal theme so I don't know if you can get typecast from making movies about men relating to women. It seems to be what is going on on the planet a lot.

Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.

Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can't make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

We all need to start making some changes to how our families eat. Now, everyone loves a good Sunday dinner. Me included. And there's nothing wrong with that. The problem is when we eat Sunday dinner Monday through Saturday.

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.

Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help.

It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.

The No. 1 issue in the Hispanic American community is 'How do I leave my children better off than myself?

I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.

We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

I am shocking, impertinent and insolent that's how it is.

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.

No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.

Of course, of course I'm grateful. How can I not be grateful? I have been afforded such a wonderful life.

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.