Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

My natural hair is jet black. I used to have it down to my bum. And I went through a phase of being obsessed with fake tan. So from the age of 14 to 16, I looked like an Apache Indian!

How do I speak Spanish? Not too well.

To say "I love you" one must first be able to say the "I."

You learn as a player not to listen to the criticism. Many of the people who put out that criticism might not be as accomplished, might not understand the game as well from the inside-out.

Of all the problems which were open to me for study, typhus was the most urgent and the most unexplored. We knew nothing of the way in which contagion spread.

I don't know any kid that's not afraid at some point going to bed with the lights off, totally. That's why they make nightlights.

I literally was famous before I knew my own name.

I'd got to that age when I was out on a date with a guy and I would be thinking: Don't mention your age, don't mention that you want a child - because they would just run out the door.

I always loved singing. I was always trying to sing in school plays. I was in every one I could be in.

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

If your library is not 'unsafe,' it probably isn't doing its job.

Every pioneer and musician who could carry a musket went into the ranks. Even the sick and foot-sore, who could not keep up in the march, came up as soon as they could find their regiments, and took their places in line of battle, while it was battle, indeed.

The day we receive Jesus Christ as our Savior is one of the greatest days of our lives. Not only are our sins washed away, but God puts His Spirit inside of us and gives us new desires.

It's time for a 21st-century retirement age. If 40 is the new 20 and 50 is the new 30, why shouldn't 70 be the new 65? The last time Washington politicians tinkered ever so gingerly with the government-sanctioned retirement age, Ronald Reagan was in office and Generation X-ers were all in diapers.

I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning.

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

A good interpreter can take a piece of bad music and make it sound pretty decent, while a bad interpreter can take good music and make it sound cheap. I can tell that some people have a bad taste, and unlike on the piano, they smear around a lot, that is bad taste.

American secretaries of state have typically been more buttoned up than bon vivant, but John Quincy Adams's diplomatic successes - bigger than anything presidential or legislative that he achieved - still surprise a student of his personality.

We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.

The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.