Best Quotes Around the World

It is important to remember yourself.

We’re not like robots. God promises to guide us through the Holy Spirit, but He gives us the freedom to make our own decisions.

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality – it connects you to reality.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Why shouldn’t truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

You know how arrogant the French are – extraordinary.

I’m not a person who defends myself very often. I kind of let my actions speak for me.

I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don’t have as many people who believe it.

Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity’s small change in general society.

I was born into the world as the king of truth for the salvation of the world.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

I have spent the greater part of my life in a hotel room with seven or eight kids, looking after everyone, sorting out fights, wiping noses, handing out towels, not having a clean towel left for me.

Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

There’s something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living.

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

I want a baby from an Italian – possibly Sicilian – donor.

Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof, from the very beginning of time. And the telescope really did that. So now we know that there was once absolutely nothing, such a perfect nothing that there wasn’t even nothing or once.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

I love performing, you know, because, like I say, I’m a ham for this stuff.

By ancestry, I was born to rule.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

I don’t call myself a Buddhist. I’m a free spirit. I believe I’m here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that’s my religion.

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

Truth is a pathless land.

I learned from my dog long before I went to Gombe that we weren’t the only beings with personalities. What the chimps did was help me to persuade others.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

I think it’s really cool when artists have song titles or album names that are a really conversational sentence.

When I finish something, I want it out that day. Pop music is like the daily paper. Its got to be there then, not six months later.

I’m not the sort of person who gives up on things. The first time we crossed the Atlantic in the balloon, it crashed, and we went on and did the Pacific. First time we crossed the Atlantic in a boat, it sank, and we went on and got the record. So, generally speaking, we will pick ourselves up, brush ourselves down, and carry on.

Any colour – so long as it’s black.

Men who think that a woman’s past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Education is the best provision for old age.

Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.

I grew up in San Francisco. And so I’m informed in a certain kind of way about, you know, believing in democracy and believing in America. And I’m a very ardent patriot.

The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.

If you like a person you say ‚let’s go into business together.‘ Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.

Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

Man was made at the end of the week’s work, when God was tired.

Every man’s memory is his private literature.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always.

From my close observation of writers… they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.

Never be ashamed! There’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth bothering with.

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

Teachers are expected to be teachers, psychiatrists, nurses, sociologists, psychologists, surrogate moms or dads, as the case may be.

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?