It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little – do what you can.
Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.
I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don’t like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don’t like to be shaped by society.
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
You can’t expect everyone to love you. I’m not someone who just wants to throw out hate, just because.
It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different.
I’m one of those people you hate because of genetics. It’s the truth.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
It’s very dangerous to wave to people you don’t know because what if they don’t have hands? They’ll think you’re cocky.
Learn how to be a loser, because it’s important to be a loser to be a winner.
Just because everything is different doesn’t mean anything has changed.
If you didn’t want to believe in me, that’s OK, because I’ll make a believer out of you.
Tomorrow’s not promised. You may love someone; you may have a grudge because of something that they did to you, and it was unfair, but life’s not fair. Life is very short, so clean up your grudges. Let’s not hold them.
You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.
People should debate. They shouldn’t be afraid to talk. You should listen to what other people think and how they make decisions. There should be an exchange of ideas and opinions because that’s how we learn.
Let me get you to understand I don’t bully anybody. I stand up for what I believe in and I’m very honest and I always tell the truth. I’m not a liar, I’m not manipulative and I don’t stab you in your back because I will stab you in your chest.
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
And we forget because we must and not because we will.
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
In this life, we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices.
You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that.
The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
Education is important because it prepares you for life.
Bitcoin is amazingly transformative because it’s the first time in the entire history of the world in which anybody can now send or receive any amount of money, with anyone else, anywhere on the planet, without having to ask permission from any bank or government.
Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you’re passionate about something, then you’re more willing to take risks.
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.
I should be a postage stamp, because that’s the only way I’ll ever get licked. I’m beautiful. I’m fast. I’m so mean I make medicine sick. I can’t possibly be beat.
The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years.
Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother’s, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.
I don’t like to give advice. I like to give people information because everyone’s life is different, and everyone’s journey is different.
We don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh.
Life is beautiful because it doesn’t last.
Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement.
If there hadn’t been women we’d still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
I have a smile on my face because I am back on the pitch.
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.
Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
I love vintage cars because you can do so much more to them.
I guess this is gonna sound kind of weird, but I’m not scared for myself for dying. Because I believe all these places are temporary. This is just one shell. Because we Hawaiians live in both worlds.
You just got with the flow because life is just all about how you feel.
Everything has become so easy. It’s great that it’s at your fingertips, but I miss those good old days. And we’re connected, but it can be very alienating. There is this distance between all of us because we’re speaking to each other through cameras and monitors and icons and Emojis.
I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.
If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you’ll be going, ‘you know, we’re alright. We are dang near royalty.’
Baking makes me focus. On weighing the sugar. On sieving the flour. I find it calming and rewarding because, in fairness, it is sort of magic – you start off with all this disparate stuff, such as butter and eggs, and what you end up with is so totally different. And also delicious.
When an underdog wins, they win for everybody, because somebody gotta come through that door and break it open and make it possible.
One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.
For 24 years of my adult life, by choice I weighed well over 200 pounds. I say ‘by choice’ because I have never ‘accidentally’ eaten anything, so when I choose to eat too much, I have chosen to weigh too much.
One of my favorite movies of all time is ‘It’s A Wonderful Life,’ which is a pretty interesting choice for a seasonal Christmas favorite, because it’s about a guy who wants to commit suicide and is presented with reasons not to.
People who add value to others do so intentionally. I say that because to add value, leaders must give of themselves, and that rarely occurs by accident.
A career is like a house: it’s made of many bricks, and each brick has the same value, because without any one of them, the house would collapse.
I do know there are a lot of people who seem to be in my corner, and that’s, of course, wonderful. I’m really more interested in the nomination than in the award, because I think the nomination just puts you within a group of outstanding actors.
Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.
I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.
I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.
I look to the future because that’s where I’m going to spend the rest of my life.
The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another’s great tribulation; not because any man’s troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.
