Their Quotes

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

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

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.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.

I can see how the young girls really get hurt when their moms are critical, or vice versa when they're overly critical of their moms. It can be so painful.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream.

Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.

For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

You can go into neighborhoods in the United States where people dress a certain way because they don't want to be out of touch, where boys wear pants down to their knees, which nobody has compelled them to do but they pick up the cultural norms, or where girls are improperly dressed by my eyes, but that's what they see in the media.

If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.

When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.

The cool thing is that now that people have made this evolution where cooking is cool, people are doing it on weekends, they're doing their own challenges. It's back to cooking. And it's real cooking.