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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

Why should I say I will retire in three or four years? You retire the very moment you utter those words.

People are going to say what they say. I know sometimes I say things; I offend people.

The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

The truth was you can't continue to spend the kind of money our spending on all these entitlement programs. I think we need more people in public life who are willing to say, no, we can't afford certain things. No, we can't do certain things.

I still want to be as approachable and relatable as possible - when I meet fans and they're crying, I'll say, 'Calm down, there's nothing to cry about.'

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Live, so you do not have to look back and say: 'God, how I have wasted my life.'

I feel like if I had my personality but was an OB/GYN, you would be psyched. You'd be like, 'My chatty, pop-culture-interested but plainspoken, wants-to-talk-about-clothes but serious-minded doctor.' I feel like I would clean up with patients. That's kind of a cocky thing to say.

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

I don't pay attention to the number of birthdays. It's weird when I say I'm 53. It just is crazy that I'm 53. I think I'm very immature. I feel like a kid. That's why my back goes out all the time, because I completely forget I can't do certain things anymore - like doing the plank for 10 minutes.

This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.

I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.

Once somebody is known, it seems as though anybody anywhere can say anything about them. Whereas if I simply stopped someone in the street and criticised their clothes, their work, their parents, their inner being, I'd be sued and I'd be thrown in prison.

The unions say 'last hired - first fired,', we say hire and fire based on merit. We want the best and brightest in the classroom.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

I feel a lot of people listen to what I have to say.

It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.

Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.

It'd be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren't kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I'm not a baby sitter.

Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old time religion that asserted that there is a God who ordains what is right and wrong, and that His righteousness endures for all generations?

I think it's fair to say that diplomacy today requires much more of that if you're the United States of America than it did 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago.

I've been involved in something which was chaotic and insane. All I can say now is that I am, and intend to stay, a single man.

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.