How Quotes

It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.

The desire to do different things was the main motivator that made me leave late night because I'd been there seven years. The combination of an entrepreneurial desire to see how far I could push my success and a short attention span. But now I've done other things. And I'm sort of ready to sit somewhere and sit in the same place for a while.

They've got this crazy actor who's 82 years old up there in a suit. I was a mayor, and they're probably thinking I know how to give a speech, but even when I was mayor I never gave speeches. I gave talks.

I don't have any sentimental notion about how people are going to remember me.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't?

Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

Look for what's missing. Many advisors can tell a President how to improve what's proposed or what's gone amiss. Few are able to see what isn't there.

Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

Adopted kids are such a pain - you have to teach them how to look like you.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.

It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

Obama used to be a community organizer. He knows how to build communities.

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

You have to always continue to strive no matter how hard things get, no matter how troubled you feel. No matter how tough things get, no matter how many times you lose, you keep trying to win.

I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.

Contrast that with the call of the Liberal Democrats in April, when they were prepared to call upon the British people to participate in a 24-hour strike. It shows how far to the right the Labour Party's gone.

The point is, how do you know the Guarantee Fairy isn't a crazy glue sniffer.

How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to?

If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real' was at risk, what would you do? You'd live a gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life. You know you would. That's what the ghosts want us to do - all the exciting things they no longer can.

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

I went to about one frat party a year. A year seemed to be enough time for me to forget how much I didn't like frat parties, and my friends would eventually convince me to go to one. Cheap beer, guys looking for a quick hook-up, and girls playing 'dumb' to get in on the hook-up. I just never got into it.

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily.

I live on a one-way street that's also a dead end. I'm not sure how I got there.

I mean these people who work on Broadway, in my opinion, are the most gifted of everyone. I mean they really know how to dance. They really know how to act. They really know how to sing. They know how to perform.