Our Quotes

I think you have to be in the right place at the right time. And understand that and know when it is your time and how you react to it and how you respond to it.

We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

We have more media than ever and more technology in our lives. It's supposed to help us communicate, but it has the opposite effect of isolating us.

Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.

We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.

We looked up to our father. He still is much greater than us.

If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good.

Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.

Love is not in our choice but in our fate.

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!

We were never thrown into the situation in the middle of our lives, but grew up doing it. This is all we know, and some people who were thrown into it don't really know what to do or how to react and this is just kind of natural for us.

A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open.

He exists and we have four people who identified him and I know who he is, where he is, what his phone number is, everything about him that one needs. All I need is a criminal trial so I can have him subpoenaed.

If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.

What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers.

Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.

Sam Walton's values are: treat the customer right, take care of your people, be honest in your dealings, pass savings along to the customer, keep things simple, think small, control costs and continuously improve operations.

First, by 2020, North America will be energy independent by taking full advantage of our oil and coal and gas and nuclear and renewables.