How Quotes

We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

I can see how the young girls really get hurt when their moms are critical, or vice versa when they're overly critical of their moms. It can be so painful.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

I judge people on how they smell, not how they look.

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes.

Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.

Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view?

A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play.

We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it travels inside wires.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

I feel bad about my outlook, how I feel about people and society, and that I'll never be part of society the way I should.

How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

Adoption has been a part of my life and a part of my family, so it was how I wanted to start. It felt natural and right to me.

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

You know how old I am? I'm so old, I remember when Letterman used to be funny and it was presidents who were serious. That's how old I am.

I think getting married gave me a focus. It gave me a focus and direction I want to have in my life. And I think having another person that you make such a purposeful bond with has given me the opportunity to see how that can be with all the other aspects of my life.

Someone's got to be interested in how I feel, just because I'm here and I'm real.

What exactly is it that humans do that is specifically human? There has to be something. How odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people.

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

But when one believes that you've been appointed by God for a particular mission in history, you have to be very careful about that, how you speak about that. Where is the self-reflection in that? Where is the humility in that?

You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap!

It's fun to be blond, and it's almost difficult to remember how I used to look with my proper hair color.

Everyone has their own insecurities, regardless of how you look or how people perceive you, but sometimes people give their insecurities too much power. Defining beauty is simply a matter of opinion. For me, real beauty has very little to do with the structure of someone's face or body.