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All of the factors that make up a quality city - safe streets, high paying jobs, strong neighborhoods, etc. - emanate from a strong educational premise.

A lot of TV is put together by teams, by writing staffs and several different directors. It's a great, very smart way to make television. It's worked for however long TV's been around.

I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.

I think one of the best words in the English language is compassion. I think it holds everything. It holds love, it holds care... and if everybody just did something. We all make a difference.

When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.

In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves.

You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think.

What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.

I always say don't make plans, make options.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy.

The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.

For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don't make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you're told you're too tall or you're too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You're rejected for your education, you're rejected for this or that and it's really tough.

I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

We had been getting some bad results, now it is up to us to make up the ground and catch Manchester United.

When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.

City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying; he wanted me to make up dialogue.

Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

No one should be so naive as to think that wages among organized groups will not be increased, under pressure if necessary, to make up for increases in the cost-of-living, nor should anyone ordinarily object to such adjustments.