How Quotes

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

I know something about how to build constituencies in an independent way.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

When the darkness comes, keep an eye on the light - whatever that is for you - no matter how far away it seems.

I've had the luxury of playing golf around the world, and I've spent a lot of time evaluating how to play all kinds of courses.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

How can my son not be straight after all I've said and done for him?

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?

What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time.

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

When I was 15, I had a crush on this guy who was really good at magic, and so I learned to juggle, thinking it would impress him. I spent hours and hours practicing, planning to show him. And then I never even saw him again. But at least I learned how to juggle.

When I need to push myself, I think of all those nicely polished trophies waiting to be lifted up by the winner - and how that winner might be me.

It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.

My mother gave me a real kick toward cooking, which was that if I wanted to eat, I'd better know how to do it myself.

I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.

How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.

As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

It's also much clearer how much damage the occupation of Iraq is doing to America's reputation and prestige around the world; and that's just starting now to hit home in the United States.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How is the president?"

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.