I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

You know, crankiness is at the essence of all comedy.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Winning – that’s the most important to me. It’s as simple as that.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

History is more or less bunk.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered… to feel she is the most important thing in someone’s world. Only a man can paint this picture.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

2018 is an incredibly important election year, not just with the important midterms here in the U.S., but you just had the Mexican elections. You have Brazil. You have India coming up at the beginning of next year. There’s an assortment of elections around the EU. We’re very serious about this. We know that we need to get this right.

I don’t think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

Hoover was a patriot in his heart, but he definitely exceeded his power.

Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.

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

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

History, a distillation of rumour.

A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.

There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that’s important.

If you’re living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

All art is quite useless.

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

There is no gambling like politics.

‚Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

Writing means sharing. It’s part of the human condition to want to share things – thoughts, ideas, opinions.

The oppression of any people for opinion’s sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

It’s clearly a budget. It’s got a lot of numbers in it.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

For those of you who do not know Him, choosing your eternal home is the most important decision you will ever make.

In my opinion, rankings are a very fickle measurement of one’s success and it is best to not get carried away by it.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one’s own desires through which one listens.

Good planning is important. I’ve also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you’re in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you’re depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

The concept of Kimye has more cultural significance than what Page Six could write.

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

Not only do I think being nice and kind is easy but being kind, in my opinion, is important.