How Quotes

Most people should be talking about how Floyd Mayweather is a great undefeated future Hall of Famer that's his own promoter and that works extremely hard to get to where he's at. Instead, all you hear is hate and jealous remarks from critics who criticize me and, you know, most of the time, the people that criticize me can't do what I can do.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

I don't care about how much other actors get.

I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

That's what the Romney plan is all about, how to get jobs created, how to get this debt and deficit under control, how to revive small businesses so we can create jobs, and how to bring growth and opportunity to society instead of this class warfare, instead of speaking to people like they're stuck in some class or station in life.

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

Know where to find the sunrise and sunset times and note how the sky looks at those times, at least once.

To understand someone, find out how he spends his money.

It seems to me that one thing people do over and over again is try to figure out how to get married, stay married, fall in love, how to rekindle all this stuff. It seems to me to be a pretty eternal theme so I don't know if you can get typecast from making movies about men relating to women. It seems to be what is going on on the planet a lot.

Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.

Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can't make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

We all need to start making some changes to how our families eat. Now, everyone loves a good Sunday dinner. Me included. And there's nothing wrong with that. The problem is when we eat Sunday dinner Monday through Saturday.

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.

Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help.

It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.

The No. 1 issue in the Hispanic American community is 'How do I leave my children better off than myself?

I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.

We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.