If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too.
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness.
All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.
Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed expertise are always rank-closing and mutually self-defending, above all else.
The sun, with all he planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do.
It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.
The greatest problem all around the world today, whether in America, Japan, China Russia, India or anywhere else in the world, is that people are not in peace. People want peace.
It's no surprise to me or the other Isley brothers that I can sing, because I used to sing all the time in practice. The surprise is that somebody else likes it.
I decided I was sick of trying to figure out what everybody else wanted, and I should just decide what I want, and be honest, and not spend all my time guessing.
I do not fault anyone else who makes choices to play characters that they wished they hadn't... Because at the end of the day, none of us are happy with our jobs all the time.
I don't want to spend all my time working as an activist. I don't get satisfaction out of it. I'd rather be doing something else. I'm a musician.
Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time.
Saddam spent 35 years stealing and wasting money, and all of these systems are very fragile and brittle, and you try to fix one thing and something else gets in trouble.
I think all groups who don't fit in clearly with Western music have to think, 'How can I expand my market? Where else can I perform?'
Sooner or later in life, we will all take our own turn being in the position we once had someone else in.
I'm not a party person. I'm a nerd. I'm not an extrovert in that way at all. The things I enjoy doing could be boring to somebody else.
Throughout school I appeared in all sorts of productions and deep in my heart of hearts I knew that was what I want to do more than anything else.
