There’s one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and – I’m going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself – I think most respect me.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

To all the musicians, to the Academy, with all due respect, reggaeton is part of our Latin culture. And its representing as much as any other genre at the worldwide level.

I want to keep making records as long as I can, but I don’t know how long you can be taken seriously in rap.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

My grandfather lived to be late 90s on one side and on the other side, 70s or something. And my father died young, at 63. But he didn’t take very good care of himself.

Development of outlook naturally begins with a respect for God… Reverence to God and reverence for one’s neighbor and reverence for oneself as a servant of God.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

We’re one of the only animals in the world that don’t really think of ourselves as animals, but we are animals, and we must respect our fellow animals.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

People think because I’ve got some success, I’ve made it, but in my eyes it’s like, ‚How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?‘ Not that I’m trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.

If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.

For my name and memory I leave to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

It was always a plan that we were going to have a retail side with what were doing musically, like an Apple store or Nike Town. I wanted something where you can come get everything – ‚Marathon‘ or ‚All Money‘ or ‚Crenshaw‘ – and make it like an experience. Especially with what Crenshaw and Slauson meant to my story.

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one’s temper and disturb one’s quiet.

Stop this attitude that older people ain’t any good anymore! We’re as good as we ever were – if we ever were any good.

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

I intend to live forever. So far, so good.

Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

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

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

Sitting idle at home is the most painful experience for a footballer.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‚Present‘ or ‚Not guilty.‘

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

If you get something right, you really feel it, right in your chest, on stage. I think it’s an incomparable experience.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.

God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don’t have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I’m sure he didn’t call everybody jerks.

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

I’m not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.

You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it’s not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I think even simply acceptable books stay with us a lot longer.

I’ve done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.

It’s my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

I didn’t do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.

My goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family. I don’t care what your job is, you’re not gonna talk down to me, you’re not gonna try to get a rise out of me. I’m a man first. And in establishing that, some interesting things have happened.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Every man’s reputation proceeds from those of his own household.

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

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

God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone’s sexual preferences are or if they’re black, brown or purple.

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

How young can you die of old age?

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

It feels good to have your work respected again.