Best Quotes Around the World

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

I grew up in a funny way.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.

My husband is everything to me and without him it’s just not the same.

It pays to know the enemy – not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

There’s a silly notion that failure’s not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that’s how they’ll react. But if you say, ‚We want peace, we want stability,‘ we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

The future of American film lies on television.

My three children have brought me great joy.

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I’ve had. And now that I’m in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won’t be half as much anger as there was.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

All right, then, I’ll go to hell.

Actors are one family over the entire world.

The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.

Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There’s a lot of things that come with fame – it’s what people in the limelight have to do.

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment.

Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.

The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

It’s a lot easier to stay idealistic if you don’t sign two to five next-of-kin letters every day.

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

I hardly ever go into the studio with a work complete in my head. It emerges from communal activity.

I think my message to the politicians who have within their power the ability to make change is, ‚Do you really, really not care about the future of your great-grandchildren? Because if we let the world continue to be destroyed the way we are now, what’s the world going to be like for your great-grandchildren?‘

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

Physical elegance, which is what I am talking about here, comes from the body. This is no superficial matter, but rather the way that man found to honour the way he places his two feet on the ground.

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.

I got a lot of support from my parents. That’s the one thing I always appreciated. They didn’t tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny.

O God, we praise Thee for keeping us till this day, and for the full assurance that Thou wilt never let us go.

You have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others‘ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.

Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

In the end, everything is a gag.

I just love working hard. I love being part of a team; I love working toward a common goal.

If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women, it is because of these who I met were that. There are many ‚bads‘ – bad dogs, bad censorship; there are even ‚bad‘ white males. Only, when you write about ‚bad‘ white males, they don’t complain about it. And need I say that there are ‚good‘ blacks, ‚good‘ homosexuals and ‚good‘ women?

Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs.

If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things.

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes – ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.

Opportunity makes a thief.

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.