When you know people are really at peace with who they are and what they do they collaborate and want to help you to improve.
Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.
He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
The truth is in nature and I shall prove it.
You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.
In general mankind since the improvement of cookery eats twice as much as nature requires.
It is so characteristic that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.
I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.
It just proves good movies don't need 100 million dollars to be good.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
It was huge to read the Proverbs of the day every morning it was huge to read the Psalm of the day every morning and to get that in us and get us going before the day even started.
But when I felt like I had something to prove? Then I got up early every morning and worked all day long. I didn't know if I had any more talent than anyone else directing but I knew I could work hard at it and so I did.
If you really believe that you're making a difference and that you can leave a legacy of better schools and jobs and safer streets why would you not spend the money? The objective is to improve the schools bring down crime build affordable housing clean the streets - not to have a fair fight.
Look I'm very much in favor of tax cuts but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money tax cuts with borrowed money and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here.
Politics isn't about big money or power games it's about the improvement of people's lives.
I know that campaigns can seem small and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message believe me - so am I.
A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.
All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
I never let anyone pluck including myself unless my mom approves. She guards my eyebrows. She's like the eyebrow police!
I was given baby doll toys myself and they proved a stark reminder that my life was expected to revolve around childbearing - just as my mom's had before me and her mom's had before her.
Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances but are unwilling to improve themselves they therefore remain bound.
Real men are sadly lacking in this world for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.