Best Quotes Around the World

We’ve switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics – trying to play a serious part in the world – to a culture that’s really entertainment-based.

We don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

I just think you ought to talk straight with your people.

Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.

I’m fascinated by musicians who don’t completely understand their territory; that’s when you do your best work.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

Forgiveness is God’s command.

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Didn’t get promoted? Good. More time to get better.

Love is the one wild card.

When I started Facebook from my dorm room in 2004, the idea that my roommates and I talked about all the time was a world that was more open.

The drawing teacher has this problem of communicating how to draw by osmosis and not by instruction, while the physics teacher has the problem of always teaching techniques, rather than the spirit, of how to go about solving physical problems.

I don’t believe you could be a 39-year-old quarterback in the NFL and eat cheeseburgers every day. I want to be able to do what I love to do for a long time.

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn’t really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn’t going to compose Beethoven’s Fifth.

I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.

I don’t believe in signing anything and everything that comes my way. I leave it to my agency to help narrow them down for me, but I do research it myself before signing. The image of the brand and its ambassadors go hand in hand.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.

I definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

If you look at our current technology level, something strange has to happen to civilisations, and I mean strange in a bad way. And it could be that there are a whole lot of dead, one-planet civilisations.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

God’s first creature, which was light.

We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

If one has fear, there can be no initiative in the creative sense of the word. To have initiative in this sense is to do something original – to do it spontaneously, naturally, without being guided, forced, controlled. It is to do something which you love to do.

I don’t think about who the audience is for my books.

I’ve been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I’m happier now than before I developed the condition.

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it – not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

Demonstrate to the world, there is ‚No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy‘ than a U.S. Marine.

In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it’s a continuing choice.

I don’t feel very comfortable defending my fashion except to say that people don’t have to buy it. You do have to consume. You have to live. If you’ve got the money to be able to afford it, then it’s really good to buy something from me, but don’t buy too much.

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

I’ve loved reading all my life.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.

We think Android is very, very fragmented, and becoming more fragmented by the day. And as you know, Apple strives for the integrated model so that the user isn’t forced to be the systems integrator.

I found that part of it towards San Salvador extending from north to south five leagues, and the other side which we coasted along, ran from east to west more than ten leagues.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.