Best Quotes Around the World

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

No obligation to do the impossible is binding.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

I am one of those people who believes that the solution to the world’s problems is to be found behind the Iron Curtain.

My evidence that I am saved does not lie in the fact that I preach, or that I do this or that. All my hope lies in this: that Jesus Christ came to save sinners. I am a sinner, I trust Him, then He came to save me, and I am saved.

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

I’ve got nothing against records – I’ve spent my life making them – but they are a kind of historical blip.

Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

I am not a self-help writer. I am a self-problem writer. When people read my books, I provoke some things. I cannot justify my work. I do my work; it is up to them to classify it, to judge.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

The professed function of the nuclear weapons on each side is to prevent the other side from using their nuclear weapons. If that’s all it is, then we’ve gotta as: how many nuclear weapons do you need to do that?

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

A lot of times, you could play me just the laughs from my set, and I could tell you, from the laugh, what the joke was. Because they match.

I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

I believe that fairness creams protect the skin against the harsh effects of the sun.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

The honor of a nation is its life.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.

Here in the West, people often don’t like listening to their leaders, even if they are right.

Possession isn’t nine-tenths of the law. It’s nine-tenths of the problem.

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It’s a way of life for me.

No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

My whole life, I’ve sung and listened to music, and since the beginning, I’ve had iTunes and used Apple Music for streaming.

Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

To forget one’s purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

The secret of being a bore… is to tell everything.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

When you listen to Ray Charles, there’s never any doubt whose voice that is.

Our personal intelligence is everlasting and divine.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

The poorest people are the sweetest people.

Books are sharks… because sharks have been around for a very long time. There were sharks before there were dinosaurs, and the reason sharks are still in the ocean is that nothing is better at being a shark than a shark.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

For me, there have been times when an action movie, even a ‚Tomb Raider,‘ has helped me get out of myself and be physical again. It’s like therapy.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Before all else, be armed.

If you’re going to wake up early all the time, and you’re working hard, and you’re working out, sometimes you’re going to get tired. It’s OK. It’s acceptable – somewhat. We’re all human, unfortunately.

In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn’t change policy.

To score points, you need a lot of consistent effort over the course of the game. If you’re throwing it or running it in, it’s not a big difference in terms of the score at all, obviously. But turnovers limit your scoring. That’s the problem with turnovers.

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

A chaplain’s assistant is customarily a figure of fun in the American Army.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

If you want to influence people, you want them to accept your suggestions, you don’t say, ‚You don’t know how to use the English language,‘ or ‚How could you make that argument?‘ It will be welcomed much more if you have a gentle touch than if you are aggressive.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

We loved with a love that was more than love.

I think, under President Obama, who was a really bright guy – I didn’t agree with a lot of his politics – but we got to the point internationally where our friends didn’t trust us. They were confused. And our enemies didn’t quite respect us.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute – a white skin.

When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over, I certainly don’t take it home. My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn’t know the difference between a third strike and a foul ball. We don’t talk about baseball at home.

Winning – that’s the most important to me. It’s as simple as that.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.