Our Quotes

If we all knew we were going to live to be 150 years old, we'd all approach our lives very differently.

If we will maintain our hope and confidence in the genius of our people, they will work out this problem, and their ability and industry will bring us back to normal conditions.

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek and Latin literature, its wealth and variety, its freshness and its imperishable quality.

You have a wine tasting of different years, and we're sort of doing that with our music, giving them a taste of what Journey used to be like.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

In our heads we're all about 33 years old.

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.

Our planet doesn't seem to be the result of anything very special.

History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.

Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about.

Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator.

The hope for our nation and our world lies within our ability to innovate and move forward technologically.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

If we must die, we die defending our rights.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

It is absolutely my conviction, that Walter Salles will figure among the great directors of our time.

I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

We want a state wise in its contemplation - just in its actions - and moderate in the reach of government into our lives.

We are to introduce our people into the life of the Church, which is salvation, that they may grasp its meaning, its contents and purpose, to taste and see how good the Lord is.

If I am elected President, the Castro regime will have no reason to doubt our unwavering commitment to your cause. The regime will feel the full weight of American resolve.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.

The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.