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

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

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.

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

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

I’m a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don’t like multitasking. When I’m doing one thing, I like to do just that thing.

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

There are some loony people in this world!

You have a nice personality, but not for a human being.

Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.

Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them.

We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government.

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

I think as long as I do a good job and put in all my effort to proving that I’m worth it, then everything should be fine.

A lot of guys are able to separate how they act off the court versus how they act on the court.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.

We’re running the company to serve more people.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

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

I think being funny is not anyone’s first choice.

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

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

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

It is no use saying, ‚We are doing our best.‘ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

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.

I am for people. I can’t help it.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

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.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

There’s no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively – I am one with the people.

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.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

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

I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.

People love conspiracy theories.

Most of the time spent wrestling with technologies that don’t quite work yet is just not worth the effort for end users, however much fun it is for nerds like us.

You have a ready wit. Tell me when it’s ready.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

People are always asking me in interviews, ‚What do you think of foreign affairs?‘ I just say, ‚I’ve had a few.‘

I’ve always been very happy. I’ve always been easy going and I’ve always been very encouraging; it’s just my personality.

He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting ‚All the Gods are bastards.‘

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

I think that, ah, I’m a very goofy sort of person in many ways.

I’ve been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.

I make a lot of expressions constantly. I’m animated.

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.