My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a spiritual discernment that responds to a need that arises from looking at things, at people and from reading the signs of the times. Discernment in the Lord guides me in my way of governing.

I often visited a particular plant four or five miles distant, half a dozen times within a fortnight, that I might know exactly when it opened.

Whenever I’m around some who is modest, I think, ‚Run like hell and all of fire.‘ You don’t want modesty, you want humility.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Every day, the people I meet inspire me… every day, they make me proud… every day they remind me how blessed we are to live in the greatest nation on earth.

In a country with millions of people and cars going everywhere, the enemy is going to get a car bomb out there once in awhile.

Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.

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.

Chavez, who came out of the ranks of the Venezuelan Army, is methodical and tireless. I have observed him over the course of 17 years, since his first visit to Cuba. He is an extremely humanitarian and law-abiding person; he has never taken revenge on anybody.

It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true motions of particular bodies from the apparent because the parts of that immovable space, in which those motions are performed, do by no means come under the observation of our senses.

See, people are watching you. Especially your children. They’re taking in every single thing you do. They are like video cameras with legs. And they are always in the record mode. They learn more from what you do than from what you say.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life’s greatest paradox.

Some people spend their lives building ultimate dream homes so they can enjoy their twilight years… Others spend their last days in nursing homes.

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

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

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

The most successful detectives owe their success to noticing small signs. Scouts are natural detectives and never let the smallest detail escape them. These small things are called by Scouts ‚Sign.‘

Don’t wait for the last judgment – it takes place every day.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that… it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Most of us are raised to believe we are ordinary. The anchor of the universe is present in every child. A parent only needs to guide and step aside and let them fulfill their dharma. Help children remember that they can do or be anything.

My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty… it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

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

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

That was the first time I saw a horse start from a kneeling position!

When you read, I’m sure you don’t realize that your eyes are going backwards and forwards and to this place and that place. Mine don’t do that.

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

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.

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

Oh, this base heart of ours! Hath it not enough tinder in it to set on fire the course of nature? If a spark do but fall into it, any one of our members left to itself would dishonour Christ, deny the Lord that bought us, and turn back into perdition.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

What I hate is nasty, ugly people.

Everything God tells us to do is for our good. Whether it’s direction you get in His Word or something He’s specifically put in your heart for your situation in life, the absolute best thing you can ever do is obey Him promptly and completely.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

I used to pretend that my Peugeot driving to the gym in the rain in Dublin was a Ferrari on the Vegas strip.

The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.

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

Outsourcing is inevitable, and I don’t think it’s necessarily treating people like things.

The ‚public‘ scares me, but people I trust.

Even if you’re happy with the life you’ve chosen, you’re still curious about the other options.

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

Fate pulls you in different directions.

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

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

We are so very ‚umble.

I like learning more about people; I like to talk to people.

Kids are watching us. I experience it every single day. They hang on my every word, what I wear, what I say.

Remember that the essence of authority is that people willingly follow your lead.

I have good days and bad days.

I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it’s not imagination. It’s just a way of watching.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.