And of course there's so much music in and around our family. I had a piano during Christmas because it's obviously useful through the season. There are so many people songwriters who are around.

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked not to be endured with patient resignation.

I feel sorry... for people who've had skinny privilege and then have it taken away from them. I have had a lifetime to adjust to seeing how people treat women who aren't their idea of beautiful and therefore aren't their idea of useful and I had to find ways to become useful to myself.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

The most useful form of time travel would be to go back a year or two and rectify the mistakes we made.

I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.

The attention of a traveller should be particularly turned in the first place to the various works of Nature to mark the distinctions of the climates he may explore and to offer such useful observations on the different productions as may occur.

We shall never have more time. We have and always had all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

New technology is useful but it's inefficient and ugly it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow so it has no incentive to be anything else.

For behaviorist films that's been much more useful - the change of technology - but for my kind of films doing them on film is much better because it's more beautiful.

Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.

With a houseful of kids you give each other strength.

A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society.

The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.

Science my lad is made up of mistakes but they are mistakes which it is useful to make because they lead little by little to the truth.

Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister.

Against my will in the course of my travels the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

Consult your friend on all things especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true by the wise as false and by the rulers as useful.

Afghanistan is going to be here a long time and what's critical is that Afghanistan's relationship with its neighbors are to the maximum extent they can be constructive and operationally useful.

I told my father to stop smoking around the age of two or three years old and he stopped smoking. So the relationship between the kid and the parent is very powerful and if you give the kid the right information it can be very useful to the family.

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.