One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.

I believe in individuality, that everybody is special, and it's up to them to find that quality and let it live.

You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.

I've made peace with the fact that the things that I thought were weaknesses or flaws were just me. I like them.

I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.

You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.

The eyes are so telling. That's how you engage with people and bond with them. I love direct, strong eye contact.

No matter how many obstacles that are thrown in our path, there are ways to except them and to live through them.

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

Life isn't about algebra and geometry. Learning by making mistakes and not duplicating them is what life is about.

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.

Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.

If you hire good people, give them good jobs, and pay them good wages, generally something good is going to happen.

The NATO treaty is crystal clear on this one: An attack on one nation shall be regarded as an attack on all of them.

What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems... there's no law of physics preventing them.

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

You need an attitude of service. You're not just serving yourself. You help others to grow up and you grow with them.

I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.

Memories are like mercury. Every time you sort of try to get near them, they slip out of your hand like a bar of soap.

When you abuse someone, you limit their perspective, and you trap them in your view of them or your view of the world.

No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.

I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.

There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.

Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

I'm not done yet making people miserable. If they're going to make me miserable, then I'm going to make them miserable.

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.

There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don't necessarily want to be like them. I'm too happy being myself.

For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike.

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

Japanese chefs believe our soul goes into our knives once we start using them. You wouldn't put your soul in a dishwasher!

If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.

Of all the things you choose in life, you don't get to choose what your nightmares are. You don't pick them; they pick you.

We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

I've been very fortunate to have good people in my life, and when you find good people, you gotta hold onto them real tight.

It's always an honour to receive recognition, but I always consider them more important when they come from your colleagues.

I don't care what the religion is called; as far as I'm concerned, one God, the God I adhere to, is in charge of all of them.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.

When I wear high heels I have a great vocabulary and I speak in paragraphs. I'm more eloquent. I plan to wear them more often.

Anyone can be a DJ but it's understanding how to read a crowd and keeping them on the floor is what takes years of experience.

I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

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