Best Quotes Around the World

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

I like policy – call me a nerd.

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

Before broadcasting for 50-some years, I did TV, played 10 years in the big leagues, won a world championship – and played a big part in that, too, letting the Cardinals inject me with hepatitis. Takes a big man to do that.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

Familiarity breeds contempt – and children.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man’s happiness really lies in contentment.

As the poet said, ‚Only God can make a tree,‘ probably because it’s so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

I love argument, I love debate. I don’t expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that’s not their job.

Men must know their limitations.

What nourishes me also destroys me.

Only remember west of the Mississippi it’s a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.

As Irving Good realised in 1965, machines with superhuman intelligence could repeatedly improve their design even further, triggering what Vernor Vinge called a ‚singularity.‘

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

In oratory the will must predominate.

I’m always attracted to people who interest me. They’ve got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They’re interested in people.

I love trying out different cuisines. In Delhi, I love Megu at the Leela, and TK’s at the Hyatt. I also enjoy Khan Chacha’s rolls. In Mumbai, it’s Royal China and Shiro. And in Bangalore, I like the food at Bricklane.

The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood.

The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

No matter how bad any situation, cynicism has no positive impact. Watching the news, you might notice that cynicism and victimhood often seem to go hand-in-hand, but not for veterans.

Dividers seek to make themselves look or feel better by making others feel worse. They damage relationships, fracture teams and organizations, and create havoc in people’s lives.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.

In my experience, many people confuse being cowardly with being nice.

Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

I’ve got four dogs, and I just don’t do dog doo. I’m a diva when it comes to that.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

Throughout my years in business, I discovered something. I would always ask why you do things. The answers that I would invariably get are: ‚Oh, that’s just the way things are done around here.‘ Nobody knows why they do what they do. Nobody thinks very deeply about things in business.

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

Never index your own book.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

I just think it is important that you realize, that you’re the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you’re libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

I’ve always felt like there was a lot of hype around me even when there wasn’t. I felt like everyone was talking about me even when no one was talking about me.

When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It’s not my business whether people like or dislike it.

The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute.

I never like being touched, ever. People used to say I held my breath when they were hugging me. I still do.

True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There’s no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected. Once you are aware of that you are no longer caught in the idea that you are a separate entity.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

There is a level of snobbery and fickleness in L.A.

Even though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful.

Microsoft is not about greed. It’s about innovation and fairness.

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.