Best Quotes Around the World

I wish I knew why I am so anguished.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

Love is a serious mental disease.

The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off – we do not have to stand for this.

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

Cry if you have a compound fracture, by all means. Or if your grandpa died. But otherwise, save it for your pillow.

I’ve been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline… because you need to be alone to find out anything.

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.

Think of what you are, you Christians. You are God’s children; you are joint heirs with Christ. The ‚many mansions‘ are for you; the palms and harps of the glorified are for you. You have a share in all that Christ has and is and shall be.

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

On the day-long follows that I used to do with mothers and their offspring – these chimp families that I knew so well – there was hardly a day when I didn’t learn something new about them.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.

Please don’t ask me to do that which I’ve just said I’m not going to do, because you’re burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon – no alternative.

I am the most unselfish chef in Britain today.

We think that life develops spontaneously on Earth, so it must be possible for life to develop on suitable planets elsewhere in the universe. But we don’t know the probability that a planet develops life.

Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night’s date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn’t think of looking at another woman.

Don’t say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.

A company is a group organized to create a product or service, and it is only as good as its people and how excited they are about creating. I do want to recognize a ton of super-talented people. I just happen to be the face of the companies.

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

I love artists like Prince, who hold on to that element of mystery.

By the mid-’60s, recorded music was much more like painting than it was like traditional music. When you went into the studio, you could put a sound down, then you could squeeze it around, spread it all around the canvas.

I like to be in control of how I look and how I feel and how I act.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

I’m mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it’s the only place where I’m happy.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

For me, it’s a purity thing about the joke itself. It’s a test of a joke whether or not you do it completely clean and it works. If it does, then that’s a legitimate item you have there. For me, it’s nothing to do with finding those words offensive. It’s just not what I’m in search of. Do it clean, and you are really earning that laugh.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn’t that spectacular.

I think a law clerk told me about this tumblr and also explained to me what Notorious RBG was a parody on. And now my grandchildren love it, and I try to keep abreast of the latest that’s on the tumblr.

I’m an introvert… I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.

Knowledge is power.

There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

I’ve found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

Iran is not an enemy of ISIS; they have a lot to gain from the turmoil that ISIS creates.

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.

My mind doesn’t work, my memories don’t work like a computer file where I can just retrieve them and, boy, there it is. My mind is selective in terms of memories. When I try to think back to college or high school, there are gaps. I try to fill them in. But I can’t tell you it’s always the truth.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

Nature has always had more force than education.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues.

There’s not much time to unwind, but you know what, it’s because I love what I do. I look forward to the season. I look forward to playing games. It doesn’t ever feel like work.