To give your best is to receive the best.

To give your best is to receive the best.

You must see first before you can believe.

Are we controlled by our thoughts, or are we controlling our thoughts?

The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. These are the cause of action.

Desire creates the power.

Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.

God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body.

No matter what we want of life we have to give up something in order to get it.

Sen. Clinton carried our district, and it is difficult to vote against your constituents.

When I look at a person, I see a person – not a rank, not a class, not a title.

Onstage, you can be anything you want to be. In concert, I might project a different side of myself, but I wouldn't do anything I'd be embarrassed of.

My husband is everything to me and without him it's just not the same.

The producers want us to sell, sell, sell. That's my little joke. That's what we do by day; by night, we're artists.

Movies, by nature, are not subjective, they're objective.

I don't consider myself a star.

I think the collision between the First and Third world is going to become more and more conspicuous. It's the big cliff that we've all got to climb.

'Lurking' is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.

Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well.

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but what is worse the slave of as many masters as he has vices.

I was unknown because I came to Washington from the West. I started covering Watergate. Immodestly, I'd say I did it pretty well, in part because it was hard to go wrong.

Contrary to Eastern Europe, where the border was more porous and you could exchange information more easily, Cuba is an island. Thus, it is more isolated, and it's easier for the government to have great control over its citizens.

Would we prefer to be lifting it? Of course we would. You can't look back, we have to look forward and say what are we going to do get it back next year.

Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.

The entrepreneur builds an enterprise the technician builds a job.

When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development.

There should really not be anything gratuitous in a work of art. Sometimes what seems as if it's gratuitous may be a passage in which a character is being characterized so that the reader comes to know him or her better.

The confidence is really driven by the woman - whether she can have the confidence that there will be enough earning or income to finance all the domestic spending - but also by the middle-income class, which for many Asian countries has become the growth power for the economy.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and of the ideals and purposes which inspired the Nobel Peace Award.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.

China has many successful entrepreneurs and business people. I hope that more people of insight will put their talents to work to improve the lives of poor people in China and around the world, and seek solutions for them.

I had never thought that I would be involved in narrative structures. As a young guy, I was more interested in abstract modeling. But as I got older, I began to see that there was no reason to limit myself to any intellectual or conceptual postulate, when in fact I'm a professional student of music.