The reason so many problems do not get solved in Washington is that solving those problems is not the No. 1 priority: Re-election is

There must be somebody there, because somebody must have said “Nobody.

I was walking along looking for somebody, and then suddenly I wasn’t anymore.

It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like “What about lunch?

I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

Just because somebody hears something you say, or reads something that you write, doesn’t mean you’ve reached them. With reading comprehension being what it is in the U. S., you can safely toss that one out the window. If you want to judge by the listening habits of people who buy records, the first thing they do is put it on and talk over it.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

I realized how important it was to know something about aviation, and it was something I was interested in, so I followed my brother’s footsteps and obtained my pilot’s license.

We can’t solve problems for others. We can introduce them to the Lord.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they’re being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I’m black. I tell them, ‘Don’t stop now. If I shot somebody you’d mention it.’

For me it was never about money, but solving problems for the future of humanity.

What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of courage. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but in expressing them correctly; and we can now see that it is biologically undeniable that unless we harness passion to the service of spirit there can be no progress. Sooner or later, then, and in spite of all our incredulity, the world will take this step – because the greater truth always prevails and the greater good emerges in the end.

What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but identifying them.

Good executives focus on opportunities rather than problems. Problems have to be taken care of, of course; they must not be swept under the rug. But problem solving, however necessary, does not produce results. It prevents damage. Exploiting opportunities produces results.

If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.

If you don’t like someones story, write your own.

Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.

I so desperately wanted to be Mr. Somebody. Instead, I was the little brother, included to a point.

I don’t have a tuxedo that fits anymore because my chest and my biceps are too big.

My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh.

We might as well preach to stone walls as preach to humanity unless the Holy Ghost be with the word, to give it power to convert the soul.

A Bible that’s falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t.

Too often the people complain that they have done nothing with their lives and then they wait for somebody to tell them that this isn’t so.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

The decisive question for man is—is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life

My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life.

Life itself has no rules—that is its mystery and its unknown law. What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life.

People say, ‘Why do you always got to say that you used to be a stripper? We get it.’ Because y’all don’t respect me because of it, and y’all going to respect these strippers from now on. Just because somebody was a stripper don’t mean they don’t have no brain..

If you say that you’re humble, you’re not humble. You gotta wait until somebody tells you that you’re humble

The slogan, ‘Press On!’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race

Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.

Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.

The surest way to solve one’s personal problems is to find someone with a greater problem and help him to solve it.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

I play fictitious characters often solving fictitious problems. I believe mankind has looked at climate change in the same way, as if it were a fiction.