How Quotes

How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?

A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.

Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truly die.

I've been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don't have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly Saddam can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.

I've been to Israel many times - I've lost count of how many times.

No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.

The thing about being famous is, it's weird. The only people who get how weird it is are other famous people.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.

I have no idea how much money I've got.

You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading.

No one yet knows what a man's province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial.

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over.

Rock & roll is not about what you play, it's about how you play it.

It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us.

I just knew at an early time in my life how important privacy was.

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

Plan backwards as well as forward. Set objectives and trace back to see how to achieve them. You may find that no path can get you there. Plan forward to see where your steps will take you, which may not be clear or intuitive.

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

I'm a tech geek. Whenever I read about something new, I think to myself, How can I take this and make it black?

A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.

When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.

I don't think President Bush is doing anything at all about Aids. In fact, I'm not sure he even knows how to spell Aids.

It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.

We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together.