Our Quotes

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

When I first ran for public office, it was with the passion and idealism of a young man who believed that government could help make our lives better, that public service was a calling and that citizenship demanded responsibilities. There was a greater good.

Almost a quarter of our planet is a single mountain range and we didn't enter it until after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin went to the moon. So we went to the moon, played golf up there, before we went to the largest feature on our own planet.

We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.

I think it's important to really press on with the song writing and just go with it. There's no code, there's no craft... it's just let yourself shine through your music. If it's meant to be loved and heard, it'll happen.

Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world.

Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.

Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.

In our dreams we are always young.

All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.

Working long hours being single helps because your time is yours. Once you have a family your time isn't all yours anymore. Most of the Mac team, we were in our mid-20's, most of us were single, and we were able to essentially devote our lives to it.

'Smart power' is the use of American power in ways that would help prevent and resolve conflict - not just send our military in.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.

To have united the purposes of an entire Nation, is the great historical achievement of the man in whose strong hands our President has placed the fate of our people.

The soles of Neil Armstrong's boots on the moon made permanent impressions on our souls and in our national psyche. Ann and I watched those steps together on her parent's sofa. Like all Americans we went to bed that night knowing we lived in the greatest country in the history of the world. God bless Neil Armstrong.

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

Don't let your dreams be dreams.

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.

Being in the studio is like painting, you know, you can really take your time, and try different things, and kind of go deep into it.

All of us have to recognize that we owe our children more than we have been giving them.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

My purpose... to go on with my heart and soul, devoting all my energies to Girl Scouts, and heart and hand with them, we will make our lives and the lives of the future girls happy, healthy and holy.

I don't have to ask anyone's permission to do anything. It's nice not have to get decisions out of three, sometimes four people, which can be like pulling teeth. So the amount of control that I have over what I'm doing is better for me as a solo artist.

I know it sounds corny, but when you follow your dreams, it happens. And if it's music, take it seriously.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.