Our Quotes

Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.

All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.

I'm not gonna waste your time, so I wouldn't expect you to waste my time.

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.

Even in this glowering age, morality animates our lives with meaning.

Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.

I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work.

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

Work creates an enormous sense of self and I saw that in my mother. She was an enormous, towering figure to me in the best possible way. I picked up a lot of things from her in the way that I work... I also picked up a lot of the failings of when your father doesn't have those things and that results in a house that turns into a minefield.

'm not saying I would never do acting again, because I love it, but there really is nothing compared to getting up in front of people and singing your music.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.

In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.

And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so.

We must act swiftly in order to halt the rate of decay our planet faces.

Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did.

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families.

Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.

I like going to different places and seeing the scenery and meeting the people. I've always enjoyed traveling. It's as good a way as any to spend your time.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on.

We must be our own before we can be another's.

My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages not least of which, for me, was his love of singing which gave music a central place in our lives.

Good schools, good jobs, good government. These are not unreasonable demands. But sadly, some of our people have already lost heart and have left Hawaii to look for these things elsewhere.

Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past.