Stability was overrated. Crises and adventures, on the other hand, could actually teach you something.
I live with three boys, and I can't tell you how hard it is to get your hands on toilet paper. They steal it.
I think Dodd-Frank has contributed to a concentration of banking assets in the hands of a small number of banks.
When something is written for you or handed to you, sometimes there's a very interesting dance as you discover what it is that's required.
Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.
Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
I know that you're better off making your own products, not just waiting for someone to hand you something.
It is not according to my mode of doing things, to bring a suit against a man that I have the power in my own hands to punish.
Love is waiting for you, lifting her hand, open your heart and accept it.
When I place my hand on the Bible and take the oath of office, that oath becomes my highest promise to God.
It is one thing to hear about the forest and the river, but an entirely other experience to go there, to see the environment, and to appreciate the natural riches there first-hand.
Success without someone to share it with is hollow indeed. On the other hand, it beats the heck out of failure.
American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.
As you get older, I think everyone feels that, no matter what the job: to try a hand at running the business as opposed to simply being an employee.
I took my courage in both hands and went to the Laundromat to do my washing. I had to use three machines.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.
I grew up in a craftsman's home, where things were done with our own hands. I did cabinetmaking for four years and I hated it.
I don't feel a lack of hope. It's just disappointment that after all these years we're still fighting meaningless wars for a handful of people.
