A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not.
I will be better in Monte Carlo than I was in Phoenix. If I can't win maybe I will lead 50 laps.
Even the acceptance of personal responsibility may not overcome the temptation to believe that now is not the time to repent. 'Now' can seem so difficult, and 'later' appear so much easier. The truth is that today is always a better day to repent than any tomorrow.
I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star.
I'm more interested in seeing what the material tells me than in imposing my will on it.
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
So let's find a way to protect people differently than Obamacare, because Obamacare's answer was, 'Just make everybody pay more'.
The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take.
I don't think I'm severely politically active. I care deeply, and I have my strong personal beliefs. I think America is dancing on thin ice. But I think it's bigger even than a political issue. I wonder about the evolution of the human race and spirit and what our goals and reasons for living are.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
I want to lead the pack in the process of making Indian singers bigger than actors internationally.
A woman said to me, 'You're better than your successor.' She then said she's lived under 10 prime ministers, and each was worse than the last. That put me in my place.
I have been attacked in Turkey more for my interviews than for my books. Political polemicists and columnists do not read novels there.
I don't think public life in and of itself can destroy you. I think it's the way people react to it, and some people are more sturdy than others... I don't think any one faction can be blamed for a person's self destruction - a certain amount of that has to be innate.
We spent too much time attacking Gordon Brown and Labour rather than setting out our own plans. People had decided they wanted change - the thing they were not sure about was the alternative we were offering, so going on and on about Labour missed the point.
In one of my songs, I say fame is nothing more than loving someone. So I'm grateful every day that there's so many fans of people out there that love my music and feel they're connected to me through that.
What's very interesting is that when we look at human bodies, we look at our body as a singular entity when it turns out, no, if I could reduce us to a small size as the size of a cell and put you inside your body, rather than seeing a singular entity, what you would see is a metropolis with 50 trillion citizens.
No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
The outcome, the fourth in an issue of five boys born into a staunch Baptist home, meant that from the beginning I was taught to be respectful of others no less than myself, influencing ever since both my political and administrative attitudes.
Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
Dozens of America's wealthiest taxpayers - including hedge fund legend Michael Steinhardt, super trial lawyer Guy Saperstein, and Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's fame - have appealed to President Obama not to renew the Bush tax cuts for anyone earning more than $1 million a year.
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight.
There's only one thing worse than a man who doesn't have strong likes and dislikes, and that's a man who has strong likes and dislikes without the courage to voice them.
The view outside was much more important than the exhibits.
Increased jobs are the consequence of increased trade. Increasing jobs more than output implies a fall in productivity and standards of living. That surely cannot be our goal.
No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.
I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.
I get very tired of books that feel emotionally empty. I would much rather have writers err on the side of being overly sentimental than not. I think that the perfect balance is a story that moves you without being maudlin, but I don't enjoy books that are empty of emotion and there's no connection to the characters.
As we all know, there is no harder or more rewarding job than being a mom.
I've had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness.
Biomedical research is only as good as its delivery. Distribution of medicines by charities is no more than a stopgap.
A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
I couldn't imagine my life being any more successful than it is now.
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
