Best Quotes Around the World

I love being a dad. I just love it.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Science is nothing but perception.

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

Woman’s at best a contradiction still.

I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed.

In 3-D filmmaking, I can take images and manipulate them infinitely, as opposed to taking still photographs and laying them one after the other. I move things in all directions. It’s such a liberating experience.

I wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system.

I won’t let people write anything they want to about me.

I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any.

All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

It’s a lot of fun to fight.

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

I don’t regret anything.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It’s one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

I like talking. I like acting.

There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, ‚Fine,‘ but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, ‚What a horror!‘

When we go out to the country and just sit there, what we’re really doing is just switching off various kinds of alertness that we don’t have to use. When we do that, we are stopping being defensive. We are no longer shutting ourselves off from different types of experiences, we are welcoming them in.

What is common sense isn’t common practice.

I’ve arrived at the place if I’m not taking a career risk, I’m not happy. If I’m scared, then I know I’m being challenged.

What I’m always trying to say to the consumer is: buy less, choose well, make it last.

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

I don’t think I’ve ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn’t be ours anymore.

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy… and I keep it in a jar on my desk.

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne’er was, nor is, nor e’er shall be.

When you meet with someone and you try to assess whether they’re telling you the truth or not, there’s several things you can do. You judge demeanor and credibility. You look at corroboration.

Writers speak stench.

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song.

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.

The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.

All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You’d be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.

A word after a word after a word is power.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.