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What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn’t be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.

It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.

Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.

My people are my people. They love me and I love them. I would not be here without them.

We don’t let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

I think it’s important for us as a society to remember that the youth within juvenile justice systems are, most of the time, youths who simply haven’t had the right mentors and supporters around them – because of circumstances beyond their control.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.

Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us – by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

Clothes have memories, and sometimes you don’t want to remember. People remember where they bought the clothes, who gave them, or where they stole them from.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness.

No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them.

The most important part are the fans, that people going home are happy. It’s their time off, and you should give them something to enjoy.

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems… there’s no law of physics preventing them.

I love my boys. I love watching them growing up. I love seeing them develop, and I’m always looking forward to seeing what they’re going to become and what they’re going to be interested in later in life.

It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

It was my 16th birthday – my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do – write songs and sing them to people.

I don’t want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.

What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it – would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It’s about hanging on during a very bumpy ride.

In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.

America is dumb. It’s like a dumb puppy that has big teeth that can bite and hurt you – aggressive. My daughter is four; my boy is one. I’d like them to see America as a toy – a broken toy. Investigate it a little, check it out, get this feeling, and then get out.

I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king’s business.

I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.

Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

The process of editing is what I enjoy most – putting the pieces together and making sense out of them.

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren’t punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That’s war. And this is war.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.

Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

Anyone can be a DJ but it’s understanding how to read a crowd and keeping them on the floor is what takes years of experience.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game.

The willingness of America’s veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude.

We are shallow because our media are so horribly shallow. Every morning, I peruse the papers, and there is so little to read in them. It is the same with radio – all that noise, that artifice.

If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.

With me, what you see is what you get. Yes, call me naive, but I love life. I am happy, and for that, I make no apologies. I do like to see the best in people, and when someone is nice to my face, I tend to believe them.

Every man’s heart one day beats its final beat. His lungs breathe a final breath. And if what that man did in his life makes the blood pulse through the body of others, and makes them bleed deeper and something larger than life, then his essence, his spirit, will be immortalized.

There is a destiny that shapes our ends rough, hew them as we will.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.