Best Quotes Around the World

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

When my dad founded our church, he used either a globe or a map of the world behind him. It was symbolic of what Christ said: to go forth and preach hope to the world. We believe in the cross, but we just continued with the globe.

Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.

The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.

I don’t want to be fake. I’m just being me. And I have the power to break stereotypes and whatever useless rules that society puts on us.

Part of me feels you can’t say you were truly in love if it didn’t last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that’s when I’ll know it’s real – because it lasted.

I don’t think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.

The terrorist action of 9/11 gave birth to President Obama’s entry to the White House. Not directly, but indirectly.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn’t have the recognition that I have now.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

Another suggestion is to cook a meal, maybe not every night, but a couple more times a week than you usually do. That way you have leftovers, and you take your lunch to work.

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

I didn’t think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I’m not put together like the other chaps.

I’m about being the best.

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people’s opinions will rush in from all quarters.

I believe that everyone experiences depression to some degree at some time in their lives. And there are probably millions of people who live with a low level of sadness and heaviness day in and day out.

I think New York has evolved in my work just the way the city has.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we’ve got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.

Power is competence.

The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Being on tour is like being in limbo. It’s like going from nowhere to nowhere.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

In college, I think I probably positioned myself as an aspiring writer, meaning I dressed sort of extravagantly and adopted all the semi-Byronic affectations, as if I were writing, although I wasn’t actually doing any writing.

Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual, whatever you happen to be studying.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

If you try to protect yourself from pain, it becomes a stone in your heart. But the more you learn to face things, the more likely that stone can become a pearl.

My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself.

My skin is 24 karat gold when a sun hit it.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.

We shouldn’t be saying ‚Save the planet‘; we should be saying: ‚Save viable conditions in which people can live.‘ That’s what we’re dealing with here.

I knew early on that I wanted to entertain in some form. And I knew I would work as hard as anyone to do it.

America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War.

When I say something’s going to happen, it’s going to happen.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.

It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

Whoever won’t fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.

People everywhere in the world are hungry for economic opportunity. And it’s about a lot more than being able to make money.

Libraries raised me.

Although I’ve been living in the British Virgin Islands for some time now, I have never stopped caring passionately about the U.K. and its great people.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn’t know what to do with me.

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.

We need to keep making our streets safer and our criminal justice system fairer – our homeland more secure, our world more peaceful and sustainable for the next generation.

I’m prepared to say that law enforcement should be allowed to seize the guns of those who are suspected to be involved in domestic terrorism.

Stand-up is my baby.

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

3D is a way of organizing things, particularly as we’re getting much more media information on the computer, a lot more choices, a lot more navigation than we’ve ever had before.