How Quotes

You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.

The 20th century taught us how far unbridled evil can and will go when the world fails to confront it. It is time that we heed the lessons of the 20th century and stand up to these murderers. It is time that we end genocide in the 21st century.

You'd think that in this age, especially in the 21st century - especially with all the technology and all the discoveries that we've made - that we would figure out how to tackle abuse.

Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

Learn how to prioritize all your debt. And did you know student loan debt is the most dangerous debt any of us can have?

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

I bought one of those Learn How to Play Guitar Chords By Yourself and it shows you the diagram where to put your hands and I took that in my room, sat with my singles and learned how to play guitar.

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

As my dad said, you have an obligation to leave the world better than how you found it. And he also reminded us to be givers in this life, and not takers.

Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it's not about the solvency of Social Security.

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

I love the look of planes and the idea of how a plane flies. The more I learn about it the better I feel; while I still may not like it, I have a sense of what is really happening.

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.

I just think it's shocking how many of these young people wind up in prison and they get turned into hardcore criminals because they had a possession of a very small amount of controlled substance.

When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.

As soon as someone like me or David Lynch pops up everyone says hallelujah, how weird.

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

To be a good loser is to learn how to win.

Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness.

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.