How Quotes

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.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society.

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they're gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

Finland is a rich country. What have they got? They got Nokia phones and plywood. How'd they get so rich? Because they're free.

Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?

If you wanna know how not secure you are, just take a look around. Nothing's secure. Nothing's safe. I don't hate technology, I don't hate hackers, because that's just what comes with it, without those hackers we wouldn't solve the problems we need to solve, especially security.

Realistically speaking, I don't know how many more years I will want to be acting or will be invited to be.

If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.

In order to effect great change, we need to look at how we can help those in our own communities as well as globally.

Kiss me and you will see how important I am.

The Five Points was the toughest street corner in the world. That's how it was known. In fact, Charles Dickens visited it in the 1850s and he said it was worse than anything he'd seen in the East End of London.

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.

How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.

It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R amp&; D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.

It is incredible how far women have come and women in sports have come.

There were times that I needed to go to battle, but how I went to battle wasn't always the best way in.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Take free money. No matter how in debt you are, if your employer offers a matching contribution on a 401(k) or other retirement vehicle, you must sign up and contribute enough to get the maximum company match each year. Think of it as a bonus.

Bad directors will tell you they absolutely know how to do it, and how it has to happen; there's this insecurity that leads them to feeling like they have to control everything.

You know, when you don't go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly 'in the know,' start whispering that you're gay. If I were gay, I wouldn't be ashamed to admit it, but I'm not.