Best Quotes Around the World

I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity, and that includes all kinds of parts.

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

If you wished to be loved, love.

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

I entered the diocesan seminary. I liked the Dominicans, and I had Dominican friends. But then I chose the Society of Jesus, which I knew well because the seminary was entrusted to the Jesuits. Three things in particular struck me about the Society: the missionary spirit, community and discipline.

The greatest thing about being a comedian is knowing other comedians. And you get to talk to them. Its the most fun.

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one’s sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one’s character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

I mean Facebook is no longer a company, it’s a country. 2 billion users. It can influence what we think, what we believe, how we vote, what we buy, even how we feel.

I think there are more politicians in favor of electric cars than against. There are still some that are against, and I think the reasoning for that varies depending on the person, but in some cases, they just don’t believe in climate change – they think oil will last forever.

My greatest strength is common sense. I’m really a standard brand – like Campbell’s tomato soup or Baker’s chocolate.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person’s enemies say about him.

As a shame researcher, I know that the very best thing to do in the midst of a shame attack is totally counterintuitive: Practice courage and reach out!

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

Lord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, with all our failures, with all our transgressions, with all and everything that is what it ought not to be, we come to Thee.

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

There are as many opinions as there are experts.

Before I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the computer voice, I found I could give popular lectures. I enjoy communicating science. It is important that the public understands basic science, if they are not to leave vital decisions to others.

War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.

People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says ‚Hi‘ during the day.

Sometimes I wish I had taken the Bob Dylan route and sang songs where my voice would not go out on me every night, so I could have a career if I wanted.

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you’d rather be in.

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can’t I just be an ordinary woman?

The dog that trots about finds a bone.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight… the truly wise person is colorblind.

To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another.

If you make up your own mind, you can only blame yourself.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.

My interest in creating anything is that it be useful.

If you can’t eat it, shoot it, or wear it, don’t bring it.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

I eat only vegetables and fruit, and to me it’s the most aspirational diet because it’s so easy. It’s quite simple, the cooking I do.

My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.

More law, less justice.

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‚If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?‘ And whenever the answer has been ‚No‘ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Risk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they’re gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you’re going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.

Some men do think I’m a psycho bunny-boiler.

It’s not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do – everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.

I’m a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.