How Quotes

No matter how far life pushes you down, no matter how much you hurt, you can always bounce back.

It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

You never know how much time you have left.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

It's interesting to see how other people react to an oversharer.

George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

With age, you see people fail more. You see yourself fail more. How do you keep that fearlessness of a kid? You keep going. Luckily, I'm not afraid to make a fool of myself.

I'm quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing that said when you are in a relationship with a woman, imagine how you would feel if you were her father. That's been my approach, for the most part.

I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.

Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what.

Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.

There's cleanliness to how I eat now. I'm much more in tune with my body, so now that I'm so in tune based on having become a semivegan, I can tell what foods affect energy levels. I can tell when I've been eating particularly high nutrient foods or I can tell when my glycemic levels are all over the place.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.

Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think if you've got a T-shirt with a bloodstain all over it, maybe laundry isn't your biggest problem.Maybe you should get rid of the body before you do the wash.

I don't know how to drive a car.

What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

It does not matter how you came into the world, what matters is that you are here.

Now I'm fighting cancer, everybody knows that. People ask me all the time about how you go through your life and how's your day, and nothing is changed for me.

I think many of my books, including 'Handle with Care,' including 'My Sister's Keeper,' circle back to how far are we willing to go for the people we love? I think love changes the way we think. It's the thing that takes you out of what your normal set of beliefs would be.

We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world... learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

I was saying as a joke the other day that I love film editing, I know how to cut a picture, I think I know how to shoot it, but I don't know how to light it. And I realize it's because I didn't grow up with light. I grew up in tenements.

As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.