How Quotes

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

My ex-wife, she really didn't like the material that I did. And that's something I regret, that I wasn't more careful about making sure that she was O.K. with it. I just sort of didn't ask. So that's how that goes.

The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall.

I know a lot of celebrities who are perfectly happy to put their name to something and then leave it at that because the money is good, but I need to have complete control over how something is going to look if my name is going to be attached to it.

I don't see how a young American can vote for, well, can vote for a Democrat.

How weird it was to drive streets I knew so well. What a different perspective.

No matter how widely spread out the films are, how different, you still are you.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

It's fun to peek into other people's worlds and see how they go about doing things.

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.

I've been wanting to sing for a long time. I've been singing all my life, and I've tried different record companies, but it seemed like - it was such a struggle and so hard to get out there. So, I said, 'I'm gonna go on American Idol and see how far it takes me.'

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.

The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.

I know how to make decisions and stand up to the criticism every day.

Spaghetti... I can't eat spaghetti, there's too many of them. No matter how hungry I am, 1,000 of something is too many. I'll have 1,000 pieces of noodles.

I went to see every angler on the bank to see how they were doing, to try to give them a few tips or whatever. But yeah, we had a lot of fun. It was definitely a good time and we're definitely going to do it again next year.

I believe that how you feel is very important to how you look - that healthy equals beautiful.

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.

When our most important issue is the debt that we're piling on our children and grandchildren, I think it's pretty helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate who has actually managed billions of dollars and knows how to cut billions of dollars.

One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That's how the human species has done as well as it has.

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.

The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

How can we help President Obama?

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.