Best Quotes Around the World

I love almost everything about my work except conferences. I am too shy in front of an audience. But I love signings and having eye contact with a reader who already knows my soul.

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

A lot of people like to do certain things, but they’re not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.

Prayer is a confession of one’s own unworthiness and weakness.

I’ve worked with children all my life.

No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

WWE asked me to be in the Hall of Fame, and I turned it down. You know why? They put Pete Rose in the wrestling Hall of Fame. This guy can’t even get into his own Hall of Fame.

You know, crankiness is at the essence of all comedy.

I think, often, people who run away are people who got into things most enthusiastically, and then they want more. They just demand more of life than what is happening in the moment. Sometimes this is a great mistake, as it’s always a good deal different than you expect it.

I want to elongate my cricketing career as a consistent player. I have personal goals I would like to achieve someday.

Time is kind of an amazing thing because you can do so much with it. I think people underestimate time… I don’t want to just sit on my phone for hours.

I grew up thinking that a research scientist was a natural thing to be.

There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

I’m not a bad person.

All the evidence, experimental and even a little theoretical, seems to indicate that it is the energy content which is involved in gravitation, and therefore, since matter and antimatter both represent positive energies, gravitation makes no distinction.

I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that – it is spiritual transaction with the Creator of Heaven and Earth.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Songwriters, you have to work – you have to wait for residuals. You have to pray that the song’s going to be a hit. And then a year later, you might get a check.

You look at another team’s style and how they do it, and you just want to understand how they’re doing it and see if you can learn something and maybe implement it into what your team does.

Instead of being critical of people in authority over you and envious of their position, be happy you’re not responsible for everything they have to do. Instead of piling on complaints, thank them for what they do. Overwhelm them with encouragement and appreciation!

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it’s such an interesting part of their environment.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

We are the most amazing creatures that this world has ever produced, but we seem to also have this herd mentality; we seem to be the most stupid, also.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

An honest man is always a child.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.

The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.

To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.

It’s that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so ‚don’t fuss, dear; get on with it.‘

There is a need for financial reform along ethical lines that would produce in its turn an economic reform to benefit everyone. This would nevertheless require a courageous change of attitude on the part of political leaders.

Once you’ve grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you’ve inherited, you don’t even notice it any longer.

Use, do not abuse… neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

I’m chasing perfection.

Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I’m not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent – just like there’s a side of me that’s vulgar and violent.

It’s not an easy course. It’s not designed to be. We’re not here to get you in touch with your inner child.

The truth of the matter is that Iran is a cancer.

I really haven’t had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I’d rather tell a story about somebody else.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Leaders who are kind of insecure or egocentric, they basically sabotage themselves.

It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

One of the things I definitely think of as a driver of me is fear. And it’s fear of failure, fear of being overtaken.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

I was adored once too.

Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.

On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one.

If there’s one thing that’s certain in business, it’s uncertainty.