Best Quotes Around the World

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.

Dropkick Murphys get me going, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana… plus, all the regular hip-hop stuff.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.

I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.

My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

You can’t score if you’re turning it over. It’s like a punt. If you go out and you punt 12 times, you’re not scoring points. That’s not good. So, when you turn the ball over and throw interceptions, you’re giving the other team more opportunities and your team less opportunities.

People don’t come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

Men don’t care what’s on TV. They only care what else is on TV.

God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you’re able to pay off your house. That’s God shifting things in your favor.

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

Music is in my DNA!

I didn’t want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.

All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.

Engage your brain before you engage your weapon.

Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way – pouty.

I always wear the kind of stuff that makes you overheat and die.

Print some money and give it to us for the rain forests.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

You’re innocent until proven guilty.

I like to always lead from the front and set an example for whoever is playing with me or around me. I like taking responsibilities. That is my natural thing.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

There’s a rebel lying deep in my soul.

Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.

A lack of realism in the vision today costs credibility tomorrow.

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, ‚Too much of a good thing can be wonderful‘.

I don’t set out to write about spirituality; I am free to do something different every time.

All my adult life people have been helping me.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

I became a beach bum.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

I didn’t really want to live, so anything that was an investment in time made me angry… but also I just felt sad. When the hopelessness is hurting you, it’s the fixtures and fittings that finish you off.

To be is to do.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man’s own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There’s no way around these two things that I’m aware of, no shortcut.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.