A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.
I think education is one of the greatest tools for most kids not only to expand their book knowledge, but their ability to experience new things - I think it opens more doors than any other experience I can think of.
The greatest luck that I've had has been the ability to find men and women who came into my administration who worked with me and brought extraordinary talents that we were able to take full advantage of.
I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
The film camera's ability to physically move through space, not zoom through space - every time we have a video camera the movement is through zoom; every time we have a film camera it is a physical movement.
People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there.
Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.
There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
Lord, bless me with the ability to achieve all that I can, and the wisdom to realize it doesn't all have to be by tomorrow!
Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.
Any Ambassador or Foreign Service Officer who has his or her head screwed on right knows that the U.S. position in the world is far more dependent on our ability to compete in world markets.
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.