Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

I believe that economics is based on scarcity of markets. And it’s possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce.

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

Actors know what actors are insecure about – and they’re all insecure.

I’m honest enough to say I don’t know everything. You know, I don’t. I don’t understand all of God. I don’t understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It’s the other way around. They never vote for us.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman’s dance.

People like to build their own story about my life. I don’t know if it makes them feel better, or if it makes it okay for them to not like me, but the last thing I grew up as was rich.

When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

Whenever a fellow tells me he’s bipartisan, I know he’s going to vote against me.

I don’t think I’m such an amazing person who needs to be written about.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

I had just as much support from Republicans as I did Democrats when I ran for president. But I should have organized the Democratic Party to get me re-elected.

I can’t very well be teaching one way and living my life another way. What I do in life must be consistent with the things I say. And the same goes for you.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

You know, most people really don’t know me.

The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.

I am, as a character, at times, a little overbearing. I recognize that.

My heroes don’t have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don’t know how, so they talk to themselves.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

Egos are never nice. I have been a victim of it a lot of times in my career. Whenever I have used it, I have failed.

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.

Politically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you’re sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me – so am I.

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

You should never give up your inner self.

As for my own views, they’ve of course evolved over the years. This conception of ‚renouncing beliefs‘ is very odd, as if we’re in some kind of religious cult. I ‚renounce beliefs‘ practically every time I think about the topics or find out what someone else is thinking.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

If you feel that there’s the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of identifying the author with the narrator, and you can’t, obviously, be all of the narrators in all of your books, or else you’d be a very strange person indeed.

You don’t go to Notre Dame to learn something; you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.

The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

This way of life is worth defending.

I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity, and that includes all kinds of parts.

I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It’s all authentic.

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

Become aware of your own insufficiency.

I believed what my father taught me about the separation of church and state, so when I was President I never invited Billy Graham to have services in the White House because I didn’t think that was appropriate. He was injured a little bit, until I explained it to him.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

I’m a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that there’s a bunch of people that are concerned with what I have to say. I find that frightening at times because I’m just as confused as most people. I don’t have the answers for anything.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?