Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways.
Dennis Miller

We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space.
Richard Dawkins

Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.
Lucille Ball

Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
Jackie Kennedy

The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.
Milton Friedman

The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.
Milton Friedman

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.
Soren Kierkegaard

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Joe Paterno

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.
George W. Bush

Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.
George W. Bush

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
Jackie Robinson

What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.
Alexis de Tocqueville

The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
Jackie Robinson

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.
John Steinbeck

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
Marianne Williamson

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
Carl Jung

It is only in our decisions that we are important.
Jean-Paul Sartre