How Quotes

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we've come. And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

You realize you have no control over how you're perceived.

Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

The faster you go, the more students you leave behind. It doesn't matter how much or how fast you teach. The true measure is how much students have learned.

Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.

Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Before I had kids I'd go out on the road for months and months at a time, but now I don't think I'd want to do that anymore, because I'd miss too much time at home, so it's just a matter of monitoring how much work that I do and how much time I'm on the road.

A lot of very beautiful women can be a pain because all they're thinking about is how they look.

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

It isn't enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger back into, 'How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?'

It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.

I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do.

It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

I wanted to be heard, not seen. That's how it all started.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

How I love David Bowie.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

It's time to stop thinking of the Republican Party as an exclusive club where your ideological card is checked at the door, and start thinking about how we can attract more solution-based leaders like Nathan Fletcher and Anthony Adams.

I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.

Know what happens when an individual declares bankruptcy and how it affects his or her life.

The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.