The common question that gets asked in business is, ‚why?‘ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‚why not?‘

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

I don’t care whether you’re driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you’re headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That’s what the American people called for in November, and that’s what we intend to deliver.

There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don’t see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.

Policy makers who have never served in the military continue to use the military to lead social change in this country.

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

I don’t concern myself with award. I’d been to the party enough times to know it really didn’t matter.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

Example is leadership.

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

As is the case with most people in this game, I am driven by financial motives and creative motives; the question I had to answer is which motive I will give priority to?

Those who cry out that the government should ‚do something‘ never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing.

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

Competitions are a business, first and foremost.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite.

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

If we could just find out who’s in charge, we could kill him.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

I bought a company in the mid-’90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I’ve made lots of dumb decisions. That’s part of the game.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

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

History is written by the victors.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

I’m never a reliable narrator, unbiased or objective.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

I’ll be judged on the body of work and not the popularity of any one decision.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

As a producer, as a CEO of Hartbeat Productions, I am making deals to put my company in place to win, to put my staff to work so that while all this stuff is going on, they’re in the kitchen cooking. So it’s understanding the longevity of the entertainment business; you get out of it what you put into it.

I never do anything that I don’t want to do.

I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone – and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

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

For me, when you are have people wondering what is next, what is coming out, you are on the right track.

I don’t pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

Little things affect little minds.

Age doesn’t bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It’s the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.

I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.