Action Quotes

"I care about the people I know and love the most, but I also care about what the people I don't know think in the sense that I want them to think and understand me in a certain way. I don't base my life around either one, and I don't change the way I live to please either set of people, but I do care."

"You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be."

"To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can't do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20."

"What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things."

"I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know."

"How strangely men act. They will not praise those who are living at the same time and living with themselves; but to be themselves praised by posterity, by those whom they have never seen or ever will see, this they set much value on."

"What's worked for me is not quitting and being passionate about what I do and not giving up - and when I don't believe in myself, turning to others who believe in me."

"Any opportunity to adorn oneself is human, and accessories are an easy way to do it."

"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent."

"I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action."

"If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer."

"A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right."

"You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered."

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."

"I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care."

"Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?"

"There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see."

"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do."

"As J.R. I could get away with anything - bribery, blackmail and adultery. But I got caught by cancer. I do want everyone to know that it is a very common and treatable form of cancer. I will be receiving treatment while working on the new 'Dallas' series."

"Well, I motorcycle, I hunt, fish, I do all that. I keep busy. I'm never bored. I've never been bored."