Best Quotes Around the World

The peasant must always be helped technically, economically, morally and culturally. The guerrilla fighter will be a sort of guiding angel who has fallen into the zone, helping the poor always and bothering the rich as little as possible in the first phases of the war.

Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys.

Democracy… is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

I don’t know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there’s a good English phrase for it – cold war.

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world – a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I’m not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I’m 50?

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

If you consider the definition of authenticity, it’s saying something and actually doing it. I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It’s all authentic.

Classical – perhaps I should say ‚orchestral‘ – music is so digital, so cut up, rhythmically, pitchwise and in terms of the roles of the musicians. It’s all in little boxes. The reason you get child prodigies in chess, arithmetic, and classical composition is that they are all worlds of discontinuous, parceled-up possibilities.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God’s creation, woman, the object of our lust.

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.

Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.

Let’s face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.

Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

I signed up to be a musician, I want to perform, I want to sing.

Apple took the edge off the word ‚computer.‘

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.

I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn’t have anything. It’s influenced the way I look at the world.

You always have to remember that if you say something negative, it’s going to come back to haunt you.

I’m not trying to take New York by storm. I just want to sneak in there, keep my head down, batten down the hatches and cook.

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

I believe that the primary role of the government is to protect people and not run their lives. You used to be able to believe that in the Democratic Party.

People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

I never thought I’d have children; I never thought I’d be in love, I never thought I’d meet the right person. Having come from a broken home – you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don’t look for them.

When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit money when there is no good money.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

We were told our campaign wasn’t sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.

If we depend for our happiness on another, on society or on environment, they become essential to us; we cling to them, and any alteration of these we violently oppose because we depend upon them for our psychological security and comfort.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

An artist needn’t be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free.