Their Quotes

Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.

And by the way I don't object if people want to attack me, that's their right. All I'm suggesting that it's not going to be very effective and that people are going to get sick of it very fast. And the guys who attacked each other in the debates up to now, every single one of them have lost ground by attacking.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

When I play live, it's a conversation that we're all having with the song, and the audience... their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs.

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.

It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.

Confusion makes people uncomfortable. They can't put their finger on me.

I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.

It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.

It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality.

What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

So long as I'm Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you've served us - because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.

One of my movies was called "True Lies." It's what the Democrats should have called their convention.

I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

Everyone has people in their lives that are gay, lesbian or transgender or bisexual. They may not want to admit it, but I guarantee they know somebody.

I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.

I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.

Anybody who wears their feelings on their sleeve and has a harder, crusty shell - like I do - is definitely protecting an inner sensitivity.

The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.