Best Quotes Around the World

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.

We’re all just a bunch of sinners, but we do the best we can.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It’s best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

I’ve never been able to witness the birth of an idea. It seems as if one second, there’s nothing particularly going on, and the next second, something is there. It’s coming up out of my unconscious, up from places that I don’t even know where they are.

The ultimate connection is when you are connected to the creator of the universe.

I’ve been waiting over 40 years to come to Cyprus, and it has not disappointed – the birthplace of Aphrodite, the Crossroads of Civilization, and, I might add, a genuine strategic partner to the United States of America.

I think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.

Spiritual worldliness kills! It kills the soul! It kills the Church!

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.

I’m just like you – I want to be a good human being. I’m doing my best, and I’m working at it. And I’m trying to be a Christian. I’m always amazed when people walk up to me and say, ‚I’m a Christian.‘ I always think, ‚Already? You’ve already got it?‘ I’m working at it. And at my age, I’ll still be working at it at 96.

I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

The earth’s crust has not yet stopped heaving and plunging under our feet. Mountain ranges are still being thrust up on the horizon. Granites are still growing under the continental masses. Nor has the organic world ceased to produce new buds at the tips of its countless branches.

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

Every single one of the guys that I’ve written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.

No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.

I’ve done a great job at being universal in my stand-up, which is why, for ‚Let Me Explain,‘ I toured all over the world. These movies I have coming out – ‚Ride Along,‘ ‚Grudge Match,‘ ‚About Last Night,‘ ‚Think Like a Man Too‘ – are putting me in a position to become universal on an even bigger scale.

Lawless are they that make their wills their law.

I love getting out of my comfort zone.

I have been a firm believer in the federal structure of our country as enshrined in the Constitution.

If I’d married someone in show business, there’d be too much competition.

The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics – greatest progress there. But one of the reasons is that the physicists have an advantage that no other branch of sciences has. If something gets too complicated, they hand it to someone else.

Even if the economy crashes, we will still burn oil.

I never got into training to be an All-Ireland boxing champ or to win a belt. At the start, I just got into it to learn how to defend myself when I got into situations.

Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

The biggest difference in the wet between F2 and F1 is that there’s so much more power in F1 as being on the throttle earlier has a bigger advantage.

I remember thinking quite logically that I didn’t want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.

I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, ‚cause I’m very smart.

I’m the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren’t no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn’t know about them.

I believe God wants you to have money to pay your bills, send your kids to college and do charity work and build orphanages. There’s the teaching that we’re supposed to be poor to show that we’re humble. I don’t buy that. I think we’re supposed to be leaders. We’re supposed to excel.

I don’t have freedom in the United States to go into a public school and preach the Gospel, nor is a student free in a public school to pray, or a teacher free to read the Bible publicly to the students. At the same time, we have a great degree of freedom for which I am grateful.

When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there’s a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we’re going to see things through to the finish or quit.

Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

I always wanted to know, and I always used to daydream, about what it would be like to stand on a really big stage and sing songs for a lot of people, songs that I had written… Daydreaming was kind of my No. 1 thing when I was little, because I didn’t have much of a social life going on.

On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

I’ve already become a mastodon in print – I don’t see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.

I can’t tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I’ve got a good bead on myself.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

I used to say to my late wife, ‚I have great faith in the American people.‘

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

I don’t know how to work a room. It’s a real skill.

I’m not a man deeply interested in technology. It eludes me.

People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.

You definitely want your kids to understand their heritage, but I don’t want my kids to just focus on being black. They are people. I don’t want them to judge other people or to be judged. I want them to be good people, so good people will treat them accordingly. I preach that to my kids and everything else falls into place.

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.

The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.