Best Quotes Around the World

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

Living indoors without fresh air quickly poisons the blood and makes people feel tired and seedy when they don’t know why. For myself, I sleep out of doors in winter as well as summer. I only feel tired or seedy when I have been indoors a lot. I only catch cold when I sleep in a room.

I’ve had no problem harnessing anger.

The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

There’s no other company that could make a MacBook Air and the reason is that not only do we control the hardware, but we control the operating system. And it is the intimate interaction between the operating system and the hardware that allows us to do that. There is no intimate interaction between Windows and a Dell notebook.

The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus, every boy is a challenge to his elders.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

With recording, everything changed. The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one’s furniture. It’s an idea that many composers have felt reluctant about because it seemed to them to diminish the importance of music.

I have a little bit of PTSD when I hear a big bang or a loud noise or keys – I jump out of my skin.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

The cyclic universe theory predicts no gravitational waves from the early universe.

Do I live as carelessly and worldly as unbelievers while professing to be a follower of Jesus? If so, I am exposing Christianity to ridicule and leading people to speak evil of the holy name by which I am called.

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn’t been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that’s really worthwhile.

Therapy? I don’t need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

Football is unconditional love.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver five minutes longer.

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

It’s very hard when you eat out every day for a living, and a new restaurant comes along and you haven’t got that same vigour that you had 10 years ago.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

My life is a struggle.

To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.

The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

I don’t think we need more gun control laws.

Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.

I was always singing but didn’t plan on pursuing it seriously. When I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn – I have good friends and devoted fans on the underground scene, but we were playing for each other at that point – and that was it.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

My days, my years, my life has seen up and downs, lights and darknesses. If I wrote only and continually of the ‚light‘ and never mentioned the other, then as an artist, I would be a liar.

Serious illness doesn’t bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

I’m modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.

Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.