真正的敏捷是一件很有價值的事。因為時間是衡量事業的標準，如金錢是衡量貨物的標準。

任何人都應該有自尊心自信心獨立性，不然就是奴才。但自尊不是輕人，自信不是自滿，獨立不是弧立。

凡能獨立工作的人，一定能對自己的工作開闢一條新的路線。

生命如同寓言，其價值不在長短，而在內容。

對人說不，生命是一切寶物中最高的東西。

生命是肉體和靈魂的結合，別丟失了！

懂得生命真諦的人，可以使短促的生命延長。

真正的聖者的信條是善用生命，充分地利用生命。

生命在閃耀中現出絢爛，在平凡中現出真實。

生命是美麗的，對人來說，美麗不可能與人體的正常發育和人體的健康分開。

我總覺得，生命本身應該有一種意義，我們絕不是白白來一場的。

內容充實的生命就是長久的生命。我們要以行為而不是以時間來衡量生命。

生命苦短，只是美德能將它傳到遙遠的後世。

沒有人生活在過去，也沒有人生活在未來，現在是生命確實佔有的唯一形態。

年輕只知學習營利，乃生命中最黯淡之時刻。

命的意義是在於活得充實，而不是在於活得長久。

生命是美好的，一切物質是美好的，智慧是美好的，愛是美好的！

人生有兩出悲劇：一是萬念俱灰，另一是躊躇滿志。

最聰明的人是最不願浪費時間的人。

在時間的大鐘上，只有兩個字——現在。

為瞭解人生有多麼短暫，一個人必須走過漫長的生活道路。

在所有的批評中，最偉大最正確最天才的是時間。

你若是愛千古，你應該愛現在；昨日不能喚回來，明日還是不實在；你能確有把握的，只有今日的現在。

三萬六千日，夜夜當秉燭。白日何短短，百年若易海。

拋棄今天的人，不會有明天；而昨天，不過是行去流水。

我只惋惜一件事，日子太短，過得太快。一個人從來看不出做成什麼，只能看出還應該作什麼？

不要貶低黃昏，黃昏同清晨一樣是成就事業的時間。

Sometimes filming can be grueling when you're shooting the same scene for a week, or you're sitting around for 7 hours a day. They sound like very first-world champagne problems. I don't mean to sound like life is so hard, but filming sometimes is tougher than other times.

In the late 1960s, the masses were supposed to be passive, not entering into the public arena and having their voices heard.

Until I started doing standup, there were some very bleak days.

One third of the economy goes through 'QuickBooks' in terms of businesses invoicing other businesses. Each invoice contains a connection between vendors, suppliers, and customers, and also the price of that connection. Representing the payment graph is huge opportunity and something no other company can do.

Tax credits are designed to help people who work hard but who, through no fault of their own, don't earn enough to keep their families out of poverty.

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

Most Muslims do not 'choose' Islam in the way that they choose to become doctors or lawyers, nor even in the way that they choose to become fans of Coldplay or Radiohead. Most Muslims, like people of any faith, are born into their religion.

The walk from Selma to Montgomery that turned into Bloody Sunday leaves us with a strong reminder of how much those before us gave for basic human rights.

I loved 'Rocky' and 'Rambo', and am very proud of them.

People are realistic enough to appreciate what the market values of different people are.

Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they're little.

Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.

Sometimes, you can not click with somebody, and it can feel awkward.

To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are 'production units,' and accorded all the sympathy that term suggests.

I spent a lot of years on the road, and what happens is you find out who your real friends are and you find out where your strengths and weaknesses lie in communication. I've had the same friends for 20 years now and I can count them on one hand.

Early numbers are always wrong.

While some people are certainly seeing economic benefits, many others are unemployed, underemployed, without health insurance and struggling to make ends meet.

Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated.

I pointedly avoid doing sequels, since for the most part I find that a sequel rarely stands up to the original.

I am certainly an ought and not a must.

I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.

Defense spending as a share of the economy dropped significantly during the early 1990s, and that was one of the things, along with other policy changes, that put us back on the path to a balanced budget.