How Quotes

Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

Adopted kids are such a pain - you have to teach them how to look like you.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.

It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

Obama used to be a community organizer. He knows how to build communities.

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

You have to always continue to strive no matter how hard things get, no matter how troubled you feel. No matter how tough things get, no matter how many times you lose, you keep trying to win.

I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.

Contrast that with the call of the Liberal Democrats in April, when they were prepared to call upon the British people to participate in a 24-hour strike. It shows how far to the right the Labour Party's gone.

The point is, how do you know the Guarantee Fairy isn't a crazy glue sniffer.

How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to?

If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real' was at risk, what would you do? You'd live a gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life. You know you would. That's what the ghosts want us to do - all the exciting things they no longer can.

How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

I went to about one frat party a year. A year seemed to be enough time for me to forget how much I didn't like frat parties, and my friends would eventually convince me to go to one. Cheap beer, guys looking for a quick hook-up, and girls playing 'dumb' to get in on the hook-up. I just never got into it.

If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much.

Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky.

I'd like to know about some of the things that they teach down there, like building a lake. If I ever wanted to build a lake, I'd like to know how to do it.

Everybody's going through a lot of stress these days, no matter how well off you are and how many advantages you have, it's a stressful time in everybody's lives.

Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.

How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.

I think it would help tremendously to have a senator that knows where jobs come from, that knows how to create them, that knows how to bring them back and, importantly, knows what it means to manage billions of dollars' worth of expenses and cut billions of dollars' worth of expenses.

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.