You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
I have to see a definitive cut of the film before I even start thinking about the music, I tell the director what my feelings are and what I would like to do. He accepts what I say or discusses it or destroys it. Eventually, we have to find a compromise.
There was a theft! But, of course, if it was up to me, every two years I would win an Oscar.
In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.
The only limits are, as always, those of vision.
I was born in 1928, so in 1943, 1944, we had the war in Rome. There were a lot of hardships, a lack of food, many shortages. So when I worked with the Americans, the English, and the Canadians soon after the war, when I played with them, they paid me with food. That will give you an idea how widespread poverty was at that time.
Of course, the most important factor of all for long life is a good family. When a person goes home with the wife or the kids giving him endless headaches, then it's hard for that person to enjoy a long life. I am very fortunate, because my wife Elizabeth and my obedient children are very good; they have given me happiness.
Love your family. Love your country. Never stop learning... And always look back and be grateful to where you came from.
Amazement awaits us at every corner.
Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.
Do what is right... do it with honesty and vigor. Be creative - that's important. Don't follow what other people are doing.
The most important factors for a long life, I think, are partly in the genes; number two is lifestyle, which includes healthy diet and regular exercise. I walk, run and swim every day. However, I think too much exercise is also unhealthy because of over-stress; sometimes people who exercise too many hours per day die early.
The important thing to know is that life will always deal us a few bad cards, but we have to play those cards the best we can. And we can play to win. This was one lesson I picked up when I was a teenager. It has been my guiding principle ever since. When I wanted something, the best person to depend on was myself.
There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.
They're all my children... every score I've done.
No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.
Progress is not inevitable. It's up to us to create it.
Donald Trump should have a thousand impeachments against him for the thousand calls and thousand acts of extortion he has carried out against governments to harm Venezuela.
Nicolás Maduro (as President of Venezuela) - October 2019
I understand the appeal of a businessman president. But Trump's business plan is a disaster in the making.
In New York City, a lot of people think 'the great outdoors' is the area between your front door and a taxi cab.
What chance does a five-foot-seven billionaire Jew who's divorced really have of becoming president?
Capitalism works.
You can't just tell your team, 'Think long term.' It doesn't work that way. When you are starting out, you have to always think about trying to build something of value for the customer: something they can use all the time, something of use.
I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.
On the average, older parents are more flexible, tolerant, understanding, and happy in child care.
Preschool children are virtuosos of imagination.
There's almost too much venture capital in India - there are issues with seed capital, but for venture capital, there's a lot money chasing deals here.
People have criticized me for seeming to step out of my professional role to become undignifiedly political. I'd say it was belated realization that day care, good schools, health insurance, and nuclear disarmament are even more important aspects of pediatrics than measles vaccine or vitamin D.
Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.
Does politics have to be injected into everything?
We must treat the disease of racism. This means we must understand the disease.
Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices.
All the social things the consumer has gotten used to are being applied to business.
Life is fleeting, and permanence in this world is something we all strive for. The best way to achieve permanence is through philanthropy.
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.
Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
It is well to be prepared for life as it is, but it is better to be prepared to make life better than it is.
If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.
I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.
I am what I am and, you know, I'm a very lucky guy.
Last I looked - and I'm not a candidate - but last time I checked reading about the Constitution, the Electoral College has nothing to do with parties, has absolutely nothing to do with parties. It's most states are winners take all.
On Sept. 11, 2001, thousands of first responders heroically rushed to the scene and saved tens of thousands of lives. More than 400 of those first responders did not make it out alive. In rushing into those burning buildings, not one of them asked, 'What God do you pray to?' What beliefs do you hold?'
You can't sit there and worry about everything.
