My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.
The real business of life is trying to understand each other.
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
Business underlies everything in our national life including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.
Few businessmen are capable of being in politics they don't understand the democratic process they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.
If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda it is all the more important that the public understand that difference and choose their news sources accordingly.
Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.
Look at growth look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's all really good so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net.
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground secretly making the ground green.
The superior man understands what is right the inferior man understands what will sell.
The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
I started running around my 30th birthday. I wanted to lose weight I didn't anticipate the serenity. Being in motion suddenly my body was busy and so my head could work out some issues I had swept under a carpet of wine and cheese. Good therapy that's a good run.
I have had fans make me the big picture collages of the photo books I have had fans send me birthday cakes... sing to me on my voicemail. I have had fans flash me. I have had older fans give me their bras and underwear onstage.
You know maybe I was just born in the wrong time but I love all things romantic. Puffy understands that. For my last birthday he covered my hotel room floor with rose petals and had flowers and candles all over the room.
Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it to work around it.
If you play it straight it's funny - the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding from the screenplay that a moment is hilarious.
The abduction of a child is a tragedy. No one can fully understand or appreciate what a parent goes through at such a time unless they have faced a similar tragedy. Every parent responds differently. Each parent copes with this nightmare in the best way he or she knows how.
One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.
Life is an unfoldment and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.
Even a liberal reporter is a patriot wants the best for this country. And people your fair and balanced friends at Fox don't fully understand that.
Under any circumstance simply do your best and you will avoid self-judgment self-abuse and regret.
Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.
Good breeding is the result of good sense some good nature and a little self-denial for the sake of others.