Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They’ve got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.

Pay attention, don’t let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn’t understand it then, but now, now I understand it.

If you get your ego in your way, you will only look to other people and circumstances to blame.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

I know a lot of people who wouldn’t be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don’t understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

Some of my colleagues argue that by further curtailing our Second Amendment rights, they can enhance public safety. Fine, the burden of proof is on them.

They’ll forget all the rubbish when I’ve gone, and they’ll remember the football. If only one person thinks I’m the best player in the world, that’s good enough for me.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

Here’s what I believe, I think the FBI is the premier law enforcement agency in the history of the world but i think there was some bad apples over there.

People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one’s person.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

I think one of the great things about the United States has been our ability to maintain a distinction between our military and domestic law enforcement.

I am very strict about what I eat. I do not consume anything that my body does not require. It takes a lot of sacrifice and discipline. It wasn’t easy before but now its second nature for me.

If it’s good music, it’s good music.

There’s a common perception among college administrators that they should conceal the high level of sexual assaults that take place on their campuses because it would bring discredit to the university, bring them a bad name if it was publicized.

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

The appropriate response to terrorist crimes is police work, which has been successful worldwide.

There is a group of people that I think in good faith honestly believe that further curtailing our Second Amendment rights will enhance public safety. But there’s another group that just hates the Second Amendment.

It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired.

The way to know life is to love many things.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

I stand by all the misstatements that I’ve made.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

It’s been wonderful for me, and I feel so privileged to have fans that are that loyal.

If medical doctors can be sued for malpractice, shouldn’t financial professionals practice under the same safeguard?

I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

I tend to feel if people say they’re going to do something, they will, if given the chance.

It was such a leap in my career when ‚Truman Show‘ came along. It’s always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that’s OK because you appreciate it when it comes.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

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

If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.

Justice is expensive in America. There are no Free Passes… You might want to remember this, the next time you get careless and blow off a few Parking Tickets. They will come back to haunt you the next time you see a Cop car in your rear-view mirror.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.