Best Quotes Around the World

I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

I’m an atheist.

I want to show audiences I can act.

I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy.

There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

I don’t like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I’m from New York. I will kill to get what I need.

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

I’m of the school of thought where if you can’t sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.

I was impressed with what someone like Karl Lagerfeld built and did and the house that he made, but there was never really a female figure I wanted to emulate.

I try to not eat as much sugar, but it’s so hard in our American diet to do that… It’s hard to completely avoid.

Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn’t. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

An operatic voice is like no other.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.

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

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature’s God.

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?

Digital technology is the same revolution as adding sound to pictures and the same revolution as adding color to pictures. Nothing more and nothing less.

There’s definitely going to be things that I’m not very good at, things I can improve.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

I often say to people that producing is the best-paid form of cowardice. When you produce things, you almost always get credit if it’s a good record, but you hardly ever get the blame if it’s not! You don’t really take responsibility for your work.

What you don’t do can be a destructive force.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

In that film, the man and the part met. As far as I’m concerned, that part is Greg’s for life. I’ve had many, many offers to turn it into musicals, into TV or stage plays, but I’ve always refused.

The remedy is worse than the disease.

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn’t interest you, don’t do it – I would have made a terrible mother.

I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.

As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner’s medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it’s three-Michelin’s stars, there’s no greater than that. So pushing yourself to the extreme creates a lot of pressure and a lot of excitement, and more importantly, it shows on the plate.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

My Democratic friends just can’t accept the fact that the American people chose Donald Trump to be president – it’s called democracy. My advice to them, and I say this gently: Fill out a ‚Hurt Feelings Report‘ and let’s move on.

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

I always want to create and do things, or draw.

There’s an urgent need to stop reacting to each immediate vexing issue in isolation. Such response often creates unanticipated second-order effects and even more problems for us.

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I’d worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: ‚Don’t hide these things from me. I’d rather you ask me these things straight out, and I’ll answer all your questions.‘

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.