A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
H. L. MenckenI mean, Hawaii is beautiful, but the world is full of beautiful places.
Robert KiyosakiSometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Thich Nhat HanhThe compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
F. Scott FitzgeraldOccasionally, I hanker for the time when I sold more records, but I don’t sit and drool about it. When I do look at early footage of Talking Heads, I realise I was just a wreck.
David ByrneOn one occasion, I accompanied my father to Pinares de Mayari. I was eight or nine years old. How he enjoyed talking when he left the house in Biran! There he was the proprietor of the land where sugar cane, pasture, and other agricultural crops were planted.
Fidel CastroDoo-wop is special music to me because it’s so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.
Bruno MarsWe travel often to Asia, Africa, Europe, where they were born.
Angelina JolieMost of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.
Thich Nhat HanhIn Paris, you’re as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.
Kanye WestThe world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
ChanakyaFor every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
Hunter S. ThompsonHow oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!
William ShakespeareFifty years of isolating Cuba had failed to promote democracy, setting us back in Latin America. That’s why we restored diplomatic relations, opened the door to travel and commerce, and positioned ourselves to improve the lives of the Cuban people.
Barack ObamaI’ve always loved Def Leppard, ever since I was little.
Taylor SwiftYou’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.
Dr. SeussWhen I was a kid, there were no credit cards. Instead, retailers offered layaway plans. My mom would go to a store, such as a furniture outlet, choose the sofa she wanted, and put it on layaway. That meant she put a little money down to hold the sofa, and every payday she’d pay a little toward the purchase.
Robert KiyosakiSometimes the greatest meals on vacations are the ones you find when Plan A falls through.
Anthony BourdainBy three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
ConfuciusIt is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
Charles SpurgeonI always tell people that if I move anywhere it would be Toronto.
Kendrick LamarWhat’s fascinating is, people in Washington would rather spend time in Hollywood, and people in Hollywood would rather spend time in Washington.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerCould the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.
William JamesThe books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar WildeIf there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
Friedrich NietzscheTravel teaches toleration.
Benjamin DisraeliIt is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert EinsteinI always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
Winston ChurchillTravel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
Francis BaconService which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
Mahatma GandhiI was born in London 1947, after the war. A real wartime baby. I went to school in Brixton, and then I moved up to Yorkshire, which is in the north of England. I lived on the farms up there.
David BowieMy father gave me some advice when I was very young – whatever someone tells you in the future, don’t forget Pele is the best.
Jurgen KloppAll our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.
Khalil GibranEverybody is idealistic when you’re a kid.
Clint EastwoodIt is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.
Franz KafkaFashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.
Coco ChanelAll my playmates on the farm were black, and later, when I started school in Plains, it was all white. But I was always eager to get back home to my friends in Archery.
Jimmy CarterAs the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.
Helen KellerSome old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
Alexander PopeI never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It’s more fun to come to Paris.
Karl LagerfeldOf all the mountain ranges I have climbed, I like the Sierra Nevada the best.
John MuirIt is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.
Abraham LincolnEach life makes its own immitation of immortality.
Stephen KingThe Make in India campaign has taken off and is backed with skill development. It is going to open new vistas for employment for the youth.
Narendra ModiI seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.
Lyndon B. JohnsonWhat is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?
Khalil GibranChildren are all foreigners.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIf you don’t trust the pilot, don’t go.
Denzel WashingtonThere is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.
Eckhart TolleAnd I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively.
Jimmy BuffettBasically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that’s what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.
Albert CamusEvery day, my mom and I would watch a different Judy Garland VHS. I love how she tells a story when she sings. It was just about her voice and the words she was singing – no strings attached or silly hair or costumes, just a woman singing her heart out. I feel like that doesn’t happen that much anymore.
Ariana GrandeSeriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
Oscar WildeI was the only kid who anybody I knew has ever seen actually walk into a lamppost with his eyes wide open. Everybody assumed that there must be something going on inside, because there sure as hell wasn’t anything going on the outside!
Douglas AdamsAfter all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
F. Scott FitzgeraldWriting and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.
Ernest HemingwayWe should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
Friedrich NietzscheI’ve never had a divorce, but I’ve seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can’t write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I’m able to kind of express it, or their joy.
Dolly PartonMost nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.
Jean-Jacques RousseauI absolutely believed when I was young because the Tooth Fairy was always good to me. The Tooth Fairy generally left me a dollar or two dollars and, as a kid, that was a lot of money.
Dwayne Johnson