Our Quotes

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

What is important is family, friends, giving back to your community and finding meaning in life.

There's a direct link between percentage of young people that are educated and how we live our lives.

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.

It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place... it's when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

We just simply want to get back to basics, get - restore essentially the constitutional foundation of the country, and that means the federal government becoming less onerous, less involved in every - basically every item of our lives. And what that means is there does have to be some transition.

I'm working harder now than ever before. I couldn't turn down the BBC job because I've never been offered the opportunity of killing three or four people on screen before!

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.

Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.

Take what you can from your dreams, make them as real as anything.

Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.

Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Here we spent so much time together - eight months of our lives almost - and it was so great because we all got so close and that really made us not afraid to improve with each other.

Our people, our shareholders, me, Bill Gates, we expect to change the world in every way, to succeed wildly at everything we touch, to have the broadest impact of any company in the world.

I get tired of negativity in our country. I get tired of people who only want to know dirt. I get tired of people who don't believe in themselves.

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.

We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns.

Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.

To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.

Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.

Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.