Best Quotes Around the World

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one’s opponent.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

Sometimes, if you begin to sing in a halfhearted mood, you can sing yourself up the ladder. Singing will often make the heart rise.

Great companies are built on great products.

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

It is fun to be in the same decade with you.

I think it quite likely that we are the only civilization within several hundred light years; otherwise we would have heard radio waves.

I’m a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that there’s a bunch of people that are concerned with what I have to say. I find that frightening at times because I’m just as confused as most people. I don’t have the answers for anything.

The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will.

There is no God-given right to victory on the battlefield. You win that through the skill and the devotion, the valor and the ferocity of your troops.

Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly that my mind cannot know the unknown, there is absolute quietness.

There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar… Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

I hope the fans have enjoyed listening as much as I’ve enjoyed doing the games. I don’t ever go to the park where I don’t have a good day. I don’t like losing. But I don’t think I ever go to the park where I have a bad day. I don’t think once.

Right now it’s only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.

We care for each other and care about our family, and we are both working towards the same goal.

Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.

Parents and teachers, learn to listen, then listen to learn from children.

We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

I’ve always been very liberal when it comes to people thinking for themselves.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.

To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I’m working on the foundation.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

I was asked to act when I couldn’t act. I was asked to sing ‚Funny Face‘ when I couldn’t sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn’t dance – and do all kinds of things I wasn’t prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

Time itself comes in drops.

Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we’ve been having with painting. There’s no way of looking at art as though you hadn’t seen art before.

Coaching wouldn’t be for me. No, certainly not.

The future is purchased by the present.

I draw from the crowd a lot.

Power does not change you, it unmasks you.

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

A director makes 100 decisions an hour. Students ask me how you know how to make the right decision, and I say to them, ‚If you don’t know how to make the right decision, you’re not a director.‘

Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don’t like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn’t work. Some movie I don’t like, it gets big box office. Very difficult.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

It’s hard for anybody who’s been with me not to feel starved for affection when I’m making love to my ideas. Maybe it’s not meant for me to settle down and be married.

Time is the least thing we have of.

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

I now make my living by being impolite. I am clumsy at it.

Japan’s very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don’t think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that’s already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

Be the chief but never the lord.

I love to watch videos, and I’ve always liked to film and take pictures. I have an eye for really weird things that nobody thinks about. I used to make little movies about myself and then edit them on iMovie.