Our Quotes

When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

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.

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.

It is the cells which create and maintain in us, during the span of our lives, our will to live and survive, to search and experiment, and to struggle.

Looking at the purpose of our government toward the Indians, we find that after subjugating them it has been our policy to collect the different tribes on reservations and support them at the expense of our people.

If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.

We are the hero of our own story.

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.

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.