I mean, if you didn’t get it or if you didn’t feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

People’s minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year.

I once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn’t picked me up.

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It’s not like an action star.

Gravitation is, so far, not understandable in terms of other phenomena.

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

The second time around, I’ll understand that, as a husband, my wife doesn’t care about my opinions. I just need to tell her the things that will continue to help me stack the brownie points.

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.

I’m a career prosecutor. I have been trained, and my experience over decades, is to make decisions after a review of the evidence and the facts. And not to jump up with grand gestures before I’ve done that. Some might interpret that as being cautious. I would tell you that’s just responsible.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.

It’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‚I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.‘ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren’t dependent on Washington doing something different.

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

I think I don’t take myself too seriously. You know as far as, it’s a fun life. I take my music serious, but I like to have fun.

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child’s eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

When you’re around the kids, you feel like you act the most grown up just because you’re supposed to lead. I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

I was ill, and everyone could see it but me.

I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I’ve already made them.

No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

Sometimes I wonder if I’m as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

Reality is a sliding door.

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.

I had a much better view with the halo than I expected.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.