I am much more of a geek than I am an athlete.
You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.
There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.
Since the reduction of risk factors is the scientific basis for primary prevention, the World Health Organization promotes the development of an integrated strategy for prevention of several diseases, rather than focusing on individual ones.
My mother said I would have more chances to become a tennis player than a football player.
The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.
It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.
What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't.
Ever since I bought and started flying an airplane, it's been almost exclusively for business. I love to fly. It's a great joy to me. But rarely do I use it for any kind of pleasure, other than it is a pleasure to fly.
Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.
Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.
We do have our finger on the pulse of the marketplace, if for no other reasons than having all these live events and listening to our audience all the time.
To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.
There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
They say great themes make great novels. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women.
For more than 40 years, I have advocated the creation of a 'round the clock' community. This would mean, at the least, housing, schools and shops of various kinds alongside the commercial buildings. That kind of community had appeared in lower Manhattan in nascent form before Sept. 11, 2001.
When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you; but when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it's your laugh. So you become the hero rather than the victim of the joke.
You always feel the ground rumbling beneath your feet, and if you don't, you're an idiot. Mostly because it is rumbling beneath your feet, and there is always someone who is coming up behind you who is as good, younger, and, at least as you perceive it, has more energy and more nimbleness than you.
A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could write better. I'm one nine-hundredth as good as Liebling, but that principle may slightly apply.
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
I crack jokes and play games and that's really more my nature than being cold.
I had breathed in the atmosphere created by Henri Christophe, the monarch of incredible aims, much more surprising than all the kings invented by the surrealists.
Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.
But this Veterans Day, I believe we should do more than sing the praises of the bravery and patriotism that our veterans have embodied in the past. We should take this opportunity to re-evaluate how we are treating our veterans in the present.
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.
So how can we test the idea that the transition from nonlife to life is simple enough to happen repeatedly? The most obvious and straightforward way is to search for a second form of life on Earth. No planet is more Earth-like than Earth itself, so if the path to life is easy, then life should have started up many times over right here.
Internet and mobile product development cycles are measured in months, not years. And the capital required to get a product built and into the market is less than $1 million. And the returns, when things work out, can be enormous.
My actions will speak louder than words.
I don't think it's more difficult for actors to have a good marriage than anyone. I think, in the end, a really important component of any relationship is honesty, and it also comes down to luck.
There's no greater feeling than winning a race.
It's about how you exist as a person in the world, and the idea that your work is more important than you as a person is a horrible, horrible message. I always think about a little gay boy in Wisconsin or a little lesbian in Arkansas seeing someone like me, and if I cannot be open in my life, how on earth can they?
I am doing better now though one of my legs is shorter than the other due to the operations.
His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
