How Quotes

I think it's useful, as a famous person, to have as little separation between the perception of you and how you really are - because otherwise I'd be sitting here thinking I'm keeping secrets, and wondering when you're going to find out.

The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Today, as we look back on the history of our nation and take note of how far we have come as a people, we are reminded that we owe a great debt to those who fought valiantly for the freedoms that we easily take for granted.

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that's how I kept track of what was going on.

I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice.

Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

One must learn how to be black in America.

How can a president not be an actor?

Many people have asked me how I feel about losing my job.

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

I don't know how people live without coffee, I really don't.

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

There's a fascinating statistic: One out of every four people in America has visited New York since 9/11. It is astounding. Now, I don't know how you count it; it's some people coming multiple times.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

I tend to just do whatever I want on an album and try to make it work. I'm just adventurous. It's most exciting to be at the edge of your abilities. I want to see how far I can push things.

I'm very protective of how much I let people see.

Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.

Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.

If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?

Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

Not even old age knows how to love death.

Know how to live the time that is given you.

I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 96% how I react to it.

Live, so you do not have to look back and say: 'God, how I have wasted my life.'

My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.