Best Quotes Around the World

Non-violence is the article of faith.

Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

Fill the earth with your songs of gratitude.

The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.

If I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He’s everything that I’m not.

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.

Depending upon my activities, I sleep between five and ten hours every night. I sleep in an extra-wide single bed, and I use only one heavy down comforter over me, summer or winter. I have never been able to wear pajamas or creepy nightgowns; they disturb my sleep.

If it’s good music, it’s good music.

Man becomes his most creative during war.

Behold the child, by Nature’s kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

I can’t even speak Hawaiian, but if you go there and listen to a Hawaiian song, you get captured because it’s so beautiful, like the melody is just gorgeous and you know Bob Marley is on the radio every single day. It’s very reggae-influenced down there. Basically, you haven’t been to paradise if you haven’t been to Hawaii.

It’s better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Enemies are so stimulating.

Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.

When you’re in comedy, people always come up and say, ‚Oh, it must be so hard.‘ It really isn’t hard unless you’re not good at it. If you can do it, its really kind of fun and easy.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.

I never admire another’s fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

Although cover notes for classical music albums tend to say that the trill of flutes suggests mountain streams and so on, I don’t think anybody listens to music with the expectation that they’re going to be presented with a sort of landscape painting.

What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs, these things are not important; the really important thing is this knowledge: the knowledge of God’s plan for men. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution.

Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

I get impatient with people working on a film that have their head in their hands like it’s the most complicated thing in the world.

I get asked a lot why Apple’s customers are so loyal. It’s not because they belong to the Church of Mac! That’s ridiculous.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.

Writing is a solitary experience. I’m extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing, I feel the energy I need to write will be drained. It’s so intimate, I can’t even share it with my wife.

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

One is lucky to be born in a place where no one is doing it, because then you can say, ‚Well, obviously I can write better than everyone else in high school.‘ You have no idea of the competition.

Truth is what works.

I aspire my country eventually has a league where all players play 50 games.

Wherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes.

I love being in the United States Senate.

Arthur Miller wouldn’t have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

Journalists are usually quite jealous people, especially of intellectuals who are supposed to be in fashion.

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Because I was suspicious of the traditional Christian church, I tended to tar them all with the same brush. That was a mistake, because there are righteous people working in a whole rainbow of belief systems – from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters to charismatic Catholics.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

Liberals are not always so liberal with people who disapprove – disapprove of their point of view.

All emotion is involuntary when genuine.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

One’s own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one’s Maker and no one else’s.

It all went wrong with football, the thing I loved most of all, and from there, my life slowly fell apart.