Their Quotes

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

When the whole world has their eyes on you, if you say something that doesn't truly come from your spirit and your soul, or if you wear something that doesn't come from your spirit and your soul, it's an injustice to your position. And so, I'm really myself every single day and I do it because I know my fans would want me to.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.

How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

I feel very sorry for the one or two North Korean defectors who were caught by Chinese police while entering South Korean or foreign embassies in Beijing, but their arrest drew the whole attention of the world.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

I think the world would be a lot better off if more people were to define themselves in terms of their own standards and values and not what other people said or thought about them.

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

With unemployment still abysmally high, the Obama economy is crushing Hispanics' dreams for their children to live a better life.

A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It's more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together.

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam.

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.

My friends and family are my support system. They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear and they are there for me in the good and bad times. Without them I have no idea where I would be and I know that their love for me is what's keeping my head above the water.

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.

I have three daughters, so I can't be as tough as I want to be. When you have kids - especially daughters - they know how to work you. They're a lot smarter than we are, that's for sure. But I'll be more tough on their boyfriends.

As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God.

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.