Them Quotes

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes, which is not necessarily money.

The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.

My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later.

I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.

And I'd like to give my love to everybody, and let them know that the grass may look greener on the other side, but believe me, it's just as hard to cut.

Expect people to be better than they are; it helps them to become better. But don't be disappointed when they are not; it helps them to keep trying.

The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.

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

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.

There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.

Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.

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

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.

If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.