Most Quotes

My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today.

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest.

When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.

The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can't do without them.

I don't look to a man to get pride in myself. It's not about having a black president, it's about having a good president, and I think that's the most important thing.

The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'.

I guess what I learned the most was to feel lucky with what I have been able to accomplish and what I have and to feel humble about the people I have been able to work with.

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.

The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.

I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.

France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.

I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.

We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

This administration in Washington that's in power now clearly believes that government is not only the answer to every need, but it's the most qualified to make the most central decisions for every American in every area.

A lot of people have this ego need that makes them want to believe that Earth is the center of the universe and humans are the most important species, the supreme expression of creation.

I knew I'd just done one of the most amazing things that I will ever get a chance to do. Just to be part of a musical that's not your background and to pull it off and to think that we've done something that's really special.

I don't claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I'm home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, 'Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.'

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

My favourite president, and the one I admired most, was Harry Truman.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.