What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain?

Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise.

What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain?

The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think that master can no longer hear, they speak of everything with a frankness which is the more startling because those who listen to it become responsible.

The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it's about earning approval and acceptance.

You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no.

When I go out and I see the genuine appreciation from the people, that's a big thing for me.

I'm a very competitive person.

When the Savior Himself was born, there were troubled times.

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.

Imagine a State occasion where the Queen is wearing trainers with her tiara because she thinks it will make people like her better, more folksy. It's unthinkable. But that's patently the thought process Gordon Brown (or his spin doctor) went through before the Prime Minister appeared on the world stage in Beijing without his suit and tie.

The creation continues incessantly through the media of man.

We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.

My mom used to call us 'free range kids,' like free range chickens... We roamed the countryside.

You need an R rating because without one, you can't advertise and the film won't get shown.

I have an Internet radio show where people can call in for healing.

The world of 'The Hunger Games' is a paranoid survivalist's dream.

As a kid, I was always mad - just noticing the women at Thanksgiving, running around the kitchen, while the men were watching football. For one, I don't want to cook, and for two, I hate football. I was stuck in the middle.

The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being.

In a song, you have to have a lyric that gives us new ideas on how to live, a lyric that makes us feel, and a melody that gives you some kind of body response and emotional response.

My sense is, I think it's okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career.

The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.

My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.

I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.

For resourceful tech founders, finding capital is rarely a problem; making the best use of it is another story. A few years slinging pepperoni pies and chicken wings - on tiny margins and with minimal investment - might not be the worst fiscal training.

My favorite thing of all time is a New York City weekend when there's a blizzard. Everything gets really quiet, and everyone goes to the movies and the park.

I saw a great many men die afterwards, some suffering horribly, but I do not recall any death that affected me quite so much as that of this first victim in my platoon.

Being Indian is not blood as much as it is culture.