Hugh Quotes

I didn't view my body as broken, I reasoned that a human being can never be broken. Technology is broken. Technology is inadequate.

The definition of being good is being able to make it look easy.

Winning a rowing race is not like winning anything else. Here's my theory: you're facing backwards, so you're looking at the people you're beating--and there's something exquisite about that.

Girls are complicated. The instruction manual that comes with girls is 800 pages, with chapters 14, 19, 26 and 32 missing, and it's badly translated, hard to figure out.

Every day is the opportunity for a better tomorrow.

Why read the Book of Mormon? Because angels do not come on trivial errands.

What on earth have a man's name, degree, academic position, and of all things, opinions, to do with whether a thing is true?

Why do people feel guilty about TV? What is wrong with it? Just this: it shuts out all the wonderful things of which the mind is capable, leaving it drugged in a state of thoughtless stupor.

Loneliness doesn't have much to do with where you are.

Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now.

There are many roads to Mecca.

Giving people a hand up, not a handout, is the way forward.

People will survive, and they will find happiness. Happiness only comes when you're not looking for it.

Every man is a diary in which he writes one story while intending to write another. His humblest moment is when he compares the two

There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or the misfortunes in your life. You can't go through life obsessing about what might have been.

Indolent and unworthy the beggar may be—but that is not your concern: It is better, said Joseph Smith, to feed ten impostors than to run the risk of turning away one honest petition.

I guess I'm the most successful man I know. I wouldn't trade places with anybody in the world.

No matter where we begin, if we pursue knowledge diligently and honestly, our quest will inevitably lead us from the things of the earth to the things of heaven.

Anyone who thinks they're indispensible is fooling themselves.

I meditated before I hosted the Oscars, I meditate before I go on stage, I meditate in the morning and lunchtime when I'm on a film set.

If any of you have a desire to be mediocre, you will probably find that you have already achieved your ambition.

[Eve] sees through Satan's disquise of clever hypocrisy, identifies him, and exposes him for what he is...[ever since Satan has] had it in for women.

In your cells right now, an enzyme is making a copy of your dna in less than two hours, right in the nucleus.

I lived for music since I could think.

What surprises me about getting older is that I remain so young.

Don't be like anybody else. Be different. Then you can make a contribution. Otherwise, you just echo something; you're just a reflection.

Indeed, through fundamental advances in bionics in this century, we will set the technological foundation for an enhanced human experience, and we will end disability.

Russian vodka is OK if you need to clean the oven. For drinking, it must henceforth be Polish.

I don't think I knew how going to Ethiopia would affect my life, through a very simple choice of buying fair-trade coffee, we can take part in change.

Wherever you observe persecution, there is more than a probability that truth lies on il the persecuted side.

I think adoption is a blessing all around when it's done right.

Americans have been the greatest destroyers of land of any race or people, barbaric or civilized

The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it.

A human being can never be broken

[The Many-worlds interpretation is the] only completely coherent approach to explaining both the contents of quantum mechanics and the appearance of the world.

The Afro-American experience is the only real culture that America has. Basically, every American tries to walk, talk, dress and behave like African Americans.

It's obvious that the rest of the world loves high African culture - African culture, period.

Say the truth and shame the devil.

The law of the harvest is inexorable (impossible to stop or prevent) . As we sow, so shall we reap.

We have far more ability than we give ourselves credit for.

You stay in touch with the boy who dreamed impossible dreams.

I tried to make some difference, and I think I managed to do that.

Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble.

I am not primarily an entrepreneurial businessman. I'm primarily a playboy philosopher.

I think that the major message of my life and what I hope to be remembered for is someone who managed to change the social sexual values of his time absolutely.

You know, from my point of view, I'm the luckiest cat on the planet.

Could I be in a better place and happier than I am today? I don't think so.

I think that there's nothing wrong with masturbation. If you're not feeling good about your own sexuality and your own body, you're not going to feel good about anything else.

Scotland small? Our multiform, infinite Scotland SMALL?

One of the problems with organized religion is that it has always kept women in a second-class position. They have been viewed as the daughters of Eve.