Ed Lee Quotes

With great power comes great responsibilty.

I think everybody in this world should be loved.

A church is not a church when the passion for souls is gone.

I knew that my niece was working nearby with some bank, so my wife rang up the mother and the mother called back to say that shes just called up to say she was alright.

Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, actualize yourself.

True refinement seeks simplicity.

For me, the martial arts is a search for something inside. It's not just a physical discipline.

A fan once asked if he could have a piece of my hair for voodoo. I said no, so he hugged me and plucked out a couple of hairs and ran off.

If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.

I did the marching band all throughout junior high and high school. Music was one of my favorite things in school.

Alabama soldiers, all I ask of you is to keep up with the Texans!

There's a lot of whiners in every crowd.

I don't think Mercedes-Benz says anything about me, really. I was in a situation where I was able to get a really nice car and I'm proud to have it.

Remember, life is just a game and no one gets out alive

I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is.

Who are we? We're not perfect but we're not worthless. Scripture tells us that we're beautifully made, but broken.

What a beautiful world God, in His loving kindness to His creatures, has given us! What a shame that men endowed with reason and knowledge of right should mar His gifts.

You don't know what pressure is until you play for five bucks with only two bucks in your pocket.

There are two things you can do with your head down - play golf and pray.

And once by God, I was a Marine!

One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.

Rule of thumb: Eat for what you're going to be doing, and not for what you have done. Don't take in more than you're willing to burn off.

It was during a cosmetic procedure that I first had painkillers.

Its not what happens that counts... It's how you react.

Concentration is the root of all the higher abilities in man.

I love sushi. But after too much of it, it just starts to taste like a dead animal that hasn't been cooked.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

At their core, when things really matter, people see a need to turn to God for strength and protection.

Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered.

I always wanted to be a photographer. I was fascinated with the materials, but I never dreamed I would be having this much fun. I imagined something much less elusive, much more mundane.

Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee.

Only the self-sufficient stand alone - most people follow the crowd and imitate.

Across the board, from my mother to my father to my aunts and uncles, everybody has always given me a lot of love.

The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.

Tell the truth, because sooner or later the public will find out anyway. And if the public doesn't like what you are doing, change your policies and bring them into line with what people want.

Retire? Not on your life. I have no plans to stop singing. What are you going to do when you love music? It's a terrible disease. You can't stop. Of course, I'd like to get off the road.

People who read poetry have heard about the burning bush, but when you write poetry, you sit inside the burning bush.

I think it would be really fun to film a drama in a foreign country. If the opportunity presents itself, I want to film a Chinese production.

And I hate to see artists who are real safe. I love to see artists swing for the fences sometimes.

It was a world that I wanted to record because it was such a miracle visitation to me.

I change my hairstyle every day for the show, I'm fastidious and vain about my nails and teeth and grooming and makeup, but a perfect body, forget it. Dust to dust, wuggies to wuggies.

If you want to split a bottle with a friend, then Sammy Hagar is your guy. If you want to split your friend with a bottle than give me a call.

Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity.

Baking cookies is comforting, and cookies are the sweetest little bit of comfort food. They are very bite-sized and personal.

An enterprise's most vital assets lie in its design and other creative capabilities.

If Parliament may take from me one shilling in the pound, what security have I for the other nineteen?

Marching with over a million women in support of our reproductive rights was one of the most empowering things I have done, both as a woman and as a Member of Congress.

If you put a Van Halen album in your record collection, it will melt all the rest of your records.

I want my wife to wake me up with a sweet kiss

We need storytelling. Otherwise life just goes on and on, like the number Pi.