Best Quotes Around the World

I think the best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I’ve got Alzheimer’s.

In 1993, Israel and North Korea were moving towards an agreement in which North Korea would stop sending any missiles or military technology to the Middle East and Israel would recognize that country. President Clinton intervened and blocked it.

An unused life is an early death.

My wife is already in Heaven.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

When I was an orphan, I was the richest kid at the orphanage because everyone else was complaining about not having anything. But when I discovered that you could get two cents for a Coca-Cola bottle, I would follow people around who were drinking it and ask them if they were almost through with it.

You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.

My faith was tested like Job. That’s the message I try to tell other people: just because you believe in God, serve God, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, people gotta realize, it don’t mean things not gonna happen to you.

The amount of trust and bandwidth that you build up working with someone for five, seven, 10 years? It’s just awesome. I care about openness and connectedness in a global sense.

The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.

It’s almost schizophrenic who I portray in my music.

If you’re a social scientist worth your salt, you never do a univariate analysis.

Every loss of life is terrible.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

I know that some actors and directors like to have intensity on set. I don’t, particularly. Certainly, if they want that, that’s fine, but I can’t work like that.

Jesus teaches us another way: Go out. Go out and share your testimony, go out and interact with your brothers, go out and share, go out and ask. Become the Word in body as well as spirit.

Nobody’s ever called me Sir Richard. Occasionally in America, I hear people saying Sir Richard and think there’s some Shakespearean play taking place. But nowhere else anyway.

At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.

Spiritual people don’t float around all day on clouds of glory; they live in the real world and deal with real issues in real ways.

Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I’d listen to Italian music.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

Short cuts make long delays.

Don’t let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn’t go with it.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

Man, all lives matter.

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else’s, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids.

In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It’s like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.

The year I was born, 1955, the first big disease-eradication program in the world was declared for malaria. After about a decade of work, they realized that, at least in the tropical areas, they did not have the tools to get it done.

Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.

We must use time creatively.

A family looks for ways to support and inspire one another.

Well, I’m still here. Didn’t have to go to rehab, and I’m not broke.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

Poland is not East or West. Poland is at the center of European civilization. It has contributed mightily to that civilization. It is doing so today by being magnificently unreconciled to oppression.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey?

Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I’ve written, are stories driven by characters.

I know that there are millions of Americans who are content with their health care coverage – they like their plan and, most importantly, they value their relationship with their doctor.

The people in my songs are all me.

The United States was seriously defeated in Iraq by Iraqi nationalism – mostly by nonviolent resistance. The United States could kill the insurgents, but they couldn’t deal with half a million people demonstrating in the streets.

When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about.

I don’t race cars.

We’re not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

I’m no genius.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

On the way back from Mumbai to go meet with President Xi in China, I stopped in Singapore to meet with a guy named Lee Kuan Yew, who most foreign policy experts around the world say is the wisest man in the Orient.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

I’m not feeling very well – I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.

It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.