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

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

It’s not the tools that you have faith in – tools are just tools. They work, or they don’t work. It’s people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I’m still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.

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

I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I’ve never been interested in that.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

It’s one of the few regrets of my presidency – that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better. There’s no doubt a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide, and I guarantee I’ll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office.

I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.

Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are.

Wives are people who feel they don’t dance enough.

They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited ‚first chapters‘. I have indeed written many.

I probably work harder, putting in a lot of time and effort, than a lot of drivers because all I think about, and all I do, is to do with racing, trying to make myself a better driver.

Yes, it is one of my ultimate aims – it is the ultimate sense of football: to make the people happy, to let them live some emotions that you usually can’t get.

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around .600.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

What I hate is nasty, ugly people.

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.

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

I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

Find enough clever things to say, and you’re a Prime Minister; write them down and you’re a Shakespeare.

The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn’t have that kind of personality, and it’s a terrifying thing to say.

We’re going to have to work. We’re going to have to play well. Nothing will be given to us.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

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

Talent and effort, combined with our various backgrounds and life experiences, has always been the lifeblood of our singular American genius.

There are certain characteristics that define a good chimp mother. She is patient, she is protective but she is not over-protective – that is really important. She is tolerant, but she can impose discipline. She is affectionate. She plays. And the most important of all: she is supportive.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

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

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are.

I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I’ve got a lot of that in me as well.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.

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

Sheep, like people, are ungovernable when hungry.

‚Star Wars‘ is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It’s what they want.

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

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

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

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

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I’ve had a lot of experience with that.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

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

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can’t wait for a feeling to motivate you.

There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I’m not like that I never shoot blanks.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.