Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist.
Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it – in a decade, a century, or a millennium – we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise? How could we have been so stupid?
I believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is less so. Some say it has yet to appear on planet Earth.
My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on their own. That’s not to say that all religious people are lunatics or idiots. It’s anything but that.
‘Quick Change’ was my first real movie. It was an interesting audition process because there were no lines in the script. Bill Murray’s character would say something, and Geena Davis and Randy Quaid would say something, and then it would just say, ‘The cabbie speaks.’ How do you audition for that?
God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say ‘thank you?’
Do just once what others say you can’t do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.
Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.
I can have as many bad days as anyone. But I choose to say, ‘I’m just fine.’
You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.
I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.
I am happy to say that everyone that I have met in my life, I have gained something from them; be it negative or positive, it has enforced and reinforced my life in some aspect.
I was shaped by a pit environment and the Second World War. My playground was on the pit tip at Clay Cross and I grew up with that mining background. My father was a miner and my granddad was a miner, and I would say three out of ten on the street where I was born were working in the pits.
And say my glory was I had such friends.
If I’m a busboy in Philadelphia, then I have to be careful about what I say. But if I’m a public tycoon like Jerry Seinfeld, and I got a billion dollars in my pocket, he’s got to be nuts to wonder or worry about what people are going to think.
People might think that my queen should be highly educated, beautiful and the best of the best. Jetsun Pema is a kind-hearted girl who is very supportive and whom I can trust. I cannot say how she might appear to the people, but to me, she is the one.
The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say.
There is no cannibalism in the British navy, absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount.
I’m confident to say that if you want to grow in a profession, consistency is the key… I’m strict about my work goals and training.
I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium, and symptoms of schizophrenia.
If you say, I’m for equal pay, that’s a reform. But if you say. I’m a feminist, that’s a transformation of society.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
I’m very inspired by nature – you could say Mother Nature. I look at things around me and get all kinds of inspiration daily.
When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‘Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.’
You have to treat every day as a new challenge, and you have to remain paranoid, as they say.
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‘This is my country.’
When you realize who you live for, and who’s important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I’m gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it – and I lived it for me.
We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution.
For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is ‘Justice to all. Appeasement to none.’ This is our secularism.
Standing as a witness in all things means being kind in all things, being the first to say hello, being the first to smile, being the first to make the stranger feel a part of things, being helpful, thinking of others’ feelings, being inclusive.
It’s weird… people say they’re not like apes. Now how do you explain football then?
Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say ‘I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me’ free you shall be.
I want to say a little something that’s long overdue, the disrespect to women has got to be through. To all the mothers and the sisters and the wives and friends, I wanna offer my love and respect till the end.
Every heckler is unique because they say something, and you react to what they say or what they’re wearing or who they’re with, so every response to a heckle is unique.
The greatest sign of success for a teacher… is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist.’
If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.
I tend to be so lost in the work that I don’t notice the weather. My partner will come home and say, ‘Beautiful day, wasn’t it?’ and I’ll say, ‘Was it?’ as I won’t have noticed the real world at all.
You’re going to go through tough times – that’s life. But I say, ‘Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.’ See the positive in negative events.
Our responsibility in life is not to lie around and wait for things to happen. Our responsibility in life is to work. Life is getting out and getting things done. When people say they’re over-the-hill at age 50, I don’t understand it.
You can say I’m not the easiest architect in the world, because I’m always trying to push the limits.
I think it’s just as important what you say no to as what you say yes to.
They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.
Life is very difficult. One of the most ancient of religious ideas that emerges everywhere, I would say, is that life is essentially suffering.
My father used to say that it’s never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, ‘You never know what you can accomplish until you try.’
What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, ‘I believe,’ three times.
You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‘I’m a representative.’
There’s only so far you can go before you say enough is enough.
All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
If I found a healing tree in my backyard, and it grew some sort of fruit that was a healing balm for people to repair what was damaged, I’m not going to just harvest all of those fruits and say, ‘You cant have this.’ If I have a cure for people, I’m going to share it.
What I always say is, ‘Do every job you’re in like you’re going to do it for the rest of your life, and demonstrate that ownership of it.’
I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.
If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him.
You may say, ‘Well, dragons don’t exist.’ It’s, like, yes they do – the category ‘predator’ and the category ‘dragon’ are the same category. It absolutely exists. It’s a superordinate category. It exists absolutely more than anything else. In fact, it really exists.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.
We all have a social responsibility and have to be mindful of what we do and say.
I don’t care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.
