Best Quotes Around the World

The authority you establish must emerge naturally from your character, from the particular strengths you possess.

It’s when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order to simply make a poem, that you fail.

Discernment is God’s call to intercession, never to faultfinding.

In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

Human beings will be happier – not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That’s my utopia.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

I was sure I’d set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth – that I hadn’t set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if ‚The Big Trail‘ had been a success and launched me as a star.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

What I have in common with the character in ‚Truman‘ is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.

As a former resident with strong personal and ministry ties to the North Star State, I pray that the good people of Minnesota will show their support for God’s definition of marriage, between a man and a woman.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.

Perhaps one day I will go into space.

You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

It’s a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.

William Maxwell’s my favorite North American writer, I think. And an Irish writer who used to write for ‚The New Yorker‘ called Maeve Brennan, and Mary Lavin, another Irish writer. There were a lot of writers that I found in ‚The New Yorker‘ in the Fifties who wrote about the same type of material I did – about emotions and places.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

And in real life endings aren’t always neat, whether they’re happy endings, or whether they’re sad endings.

His father is governor of Media, and though he has the greatest command given him of all the rest of my generals, he still covetously desires more, and my being without issue spurs him on to this wicked design. But Philotas takes wrong measures.

A dark cloud is no sign that the sun has lost his light; and dark black convictions are no arguments that God has laid aside His mercy.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

I’ve never been an intellectual but I have this look.

Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.

If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, active women with lots else to do in their lives, and give them carte blanche.

India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.

I’m not generally a sensitive person, but I tend to be more sensitive toward others and what they’re going through. I don’t know if that’s the healthiest thing, but it’s the truth.

A merry heart doeth good like medicine.

Kids who have an understanding of how and why their feelings are what they are are much more likely to talk to us about what’s happening, and they have better skills to work it out.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

He who is brave is free.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

I want the world to see my body.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.

If you play an instrument, it makes you a better singer. The more you play, the better you sing, the more you sing, the better you play.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.