Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.

People of Berlin – people of the world – this is our moment. This is our time.

The only thing I can say is that I like people; I like human beings with their faults and with their strengths.

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

People who can’t be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one’s people that has not previously been taken into account.

I don’t like celebrity programmes – but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

It is important to emphasize that guerrilla warfare is a war of the masses, a war of the people. The guerrilla band is an armed nucleus, the fighting vanguard of the people. It draws its great force from the mass of the people themselves.

I love argument, I love debate. I don’t expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that’s not their job.

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.

As you get older, you have more responsibilities; you have more commitments, more events, kids, you’re married now. You still have all the things that you’ve had, plus you just keep adding.

I looked the people of Louisiana in the eye and told them exactly what I thought in terms that normal people use.

The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.

I like entertaining people. I really miss it.

It’s amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are.

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

It is all fiction, only autobiographical in the sense it is about a small town. None of the incidents in the book ever happened to me as a child. I didn’t have an eventful childhood.

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.

College isn’t the place to go for ideas.

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.

People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of everything.

People in tough times – it doesn’t mean they don’t have a great attitude.

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around – the music and the ideas.

Only the ideas that we really live have any value.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

The Roman Curia has its defects, but it seems to me that people often overemphasize its defects and talk too little about the health of the many religious and laypeople who work there.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

I cap myself when I shop; I don’t like to spend extravagant amounts on clothes. But, I do get lent clothes for events, it’s scary to wear something so expensive, but I feel really pampered.

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

I’ve been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone… Bad food is fake food… food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people’s ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.

People forget… that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that’s what happened.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

What I hate is nasty, ugly people.

Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.

It is always good to know which ideas cannot be checked directly, but it is not necessary to remove them all. It is not true that we can pursue science completely by using only those concepts which are directly subject to experiment.

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

Dialogue means debates and everyone’s point of view.

I tend to believe that audiences are relatively well-balanced people.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

Music belongs to the people. To no one else. To no one else.

In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.