Us Quotes

My parents were quite liberal with us, always encouraging us to be our own person and be creative.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

When it comes to conservative social issues, it saddens me when sometimes my fellow Republicans duck and cover in the face of pressure from the left. Our loudest opponents on the left are never going to like us so let's quit trying to curry favor with them.

Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

All of us have to recognize that we owe our children more than we have been giving them.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

The President didn't offer any clarity in his latest speech about what he would do to tackle our nation's debt before it tackles us and it's still not clear how he'll keep Medicare from going bankrupt. One thing is clear though, Barack Obama isn't interested in governing or putting forward solutions to fix our nation's problems.

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

On this Veterans Day, let us remember the service of our veterans, and let us renew our national promise to fulfill our sacred obligations to our veterans and their families who have sacrificed so much so that we can live free.

Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.

We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled.

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.

I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.