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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.

There was a lot of Southern Baptist preachers and some yelling ones but mostly we had a pastor who didn't scream and I found a lot of comfort and joy and peace as a child hearing the Bible.

I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600's. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.

Even in India the Hindi film industry might be the best known but there are movies made in other regional languages in India, be it Tamil or Bengali. Those experiences too are different from the ones in Bombay.

Each family of the United States military now attends to their loved ones funeral with a wrenching worry that it will be met possibly with a protest or a demonstration.

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.

There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking - and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones.

Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.

The point is, the political reporters are the ones who no longer understand the ritual they are covering. They keep searching for political meanings in the tepid events when a convention is now essentially a human drama and only that.

Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.

I always think change is important in a character. The most dynamic choices that you can make for a character are always the best ones.

I live on a ranch in Texas and do my own thing. And I don't care what anyone has to say about it. My joke is that the only people I'm trying to please are myself and my fans, because they're the ones buying my records. And I have the best, most loyal fan base ever.

The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're active, and most of the common virtues, the signs of a good person, are not.

The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience.

To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature - and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century.

The only players I hurt with my words are the ones who have an inflated opinion of their ability. I can't worry about that.

Well, with so many space shuttle missions that we've done, I think it's just sort of natural that each one hasn't necessarily gotten the attention that the early ones did.

The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.

Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.

I have always been a writer of letters, and of long ones; so, when I first thought of writing a book in the form of letters, I knew that I could do it quickly and easily.

Square meals, not adventurous ones, are what you should seek.

The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.

I'm not in the loop; I don't know any actors, really, just the ones I work with.

I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't.

It's very hard for a man to ask questions about sex. The smart ones do.

It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.

They shaved a little piece of bone off my small toe. You see, you balance yourself a certain way and this toe had grown under the other ones. So he cut it loose, where I could balance myself and it makes me walk straight.

I'm interested in people's darker side, the ones that aren't easy and well balanced. The cracks.

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.