Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

What’s with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

I sleep people. I put people unconscious. I’m stating facts.

America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

We don’t need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.

I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane… There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there’s time, the Bastard Time.

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

All fiction is about people, unless it’s about rabbits pretending to be people. It’s all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through time and changes taking place, and that’s what we call ‚the plot‘.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

I hope to build a reputation as a science-fiction writer. That’s the pitch. We’ll see.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

If you can build a business up big enough, it’s respectable.

I’m a mama’s boy because everything I do is with respect to my mother. I won’t do a movie or a video that would bring disrespect to my mother.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

Any hand that I’ve shaken, any person that I met when I was Joe Blow, now that I’m this guy Kevin Hart, has come back. That’s why I treat everybody with respect. I’m always a nice pleasant guy to meet because when they come back to you, they remember.

I read the book of Job last night, I don’t think God comes out well in it.

Time is something that interests me a whole lot – past and present, and how the past appears as people change.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

Today, we’re still loaded down – and, to some extent, embarrassed – by ancient myths, but we respect them as part of the same impulse that has led to the modern, scientific kind of myth. But we now have the opportunity to discover, for the first time, the way the universe is in fact constructed as opposed to how we would wish it to be constructed.

Some men do think I’m a psycho bunny-boiler.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

Men’s ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee… I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little. The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different.

I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

Although the big word on the left is ‚compassion,‘ the big agenda on the left is dependency.

Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I give this silent blessing to each and every one of you, respecting the conscience of each one of you but knowing that each one of you is a child of God.

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

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put – without delay, and with tenderness – back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

I hope I would not be so arrogant as to doubt anyone’s religion or belief.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.

There’s no present. There’s only the immediate future and the recent past.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!