Best Quotes Around the World

Not many people know this about me, but I’m a natural blonde. My hair went from light blonde naturally to a darker kind of blonde. My mother dyed my hair dark when I was a child, as I loved the look then. So I’m basically a natural blonde.

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

I was born in the Ottawa General Hospital right after the Gray Cup Football Game in 1939. Six months later, I was backpacked into the Quebec bush. I grew up in and out of the bush, in and out of Ottawa, Sault Ste. Marie and Toronto.

It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

I get a thrill meeting kids who are into alternative music.

I am in touch with a company that hopes to replicate my voice. However, they are not replicating my original voice – if they did that, I would sound like a man in his 20s, which would be very strange! They are actually trying to replicate the synthesizer that sits on my wheelchair.

The Army was always big on Clausewitz, the Prussian; the Navy on Alfred Thayer Mahan, the American; and the Air Force on Giulio Douhet, the Italian. But the Marine Corps has always been more Eastern-oriented. I am much more comfortable with Sun-tzu and his approach to warfare.

I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.

I can’t consciously explain how people feel after reading my books. All is too personal.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

All art is quite useless.

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.

Nobody’s indispensable.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

The most important thing is that you honor that musical integrity, whether you make music that sounds like ABBA or you make music that sounds like Void.

I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Back in the day, what motivated me was overcoming myself. Now I believe in being a leader. I’ve done it all – I’m good. Now, it’s about setting an example for others to follow. I can’t just talk it – I have to live it.

A man’s face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man’s thoughts and aspirations.

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.

I don’t want to get into it, but if you know someone, it doesn’t mean you agree with everything they say or they do.

If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat.

If you have the ability to pick yourself up by the bootstraps and start over, you come out stronger because you learn from whatever mistakes you made.

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity.

The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

I’ll tell you one thing, since I’m married, single people look absolutely ridiculous to me.

Designers want me to dress like Spring, in billowing things. I don’t feel like Spring. I feel like a warm red Autumn.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

Battle is an orgy of disorder.

Find what’s hot, find what’s just opened and then look for the worst review of the week. There is so much to learn from watching a restaurant getting absolutely panned and having a bad experience. Go and see it for yourself.

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

Most people have no idea what something would sound like if it wasn’t an MP3.

I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time, speaking a lot of Spanish with my friends from Cuba – Lana Del Rey reminded us of the glamour of the seaside. It sounded gorgeous coming off the tip of the tongue.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.