Best Quotes Around the World

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

Society therefore is as ancient as the world.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

Don’t throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass.

I know that a large part of my fan base is gay. They’ve shown me love from the start. I mean in this industry, everyone from my glam people to my dancers are gay. You can’t be homophobic in this line of work – I’m a pop star!

Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don’t think it’s intelligent, and it’s not sane. So why would you want to support it?

I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It’s the magic sauce.

If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened – as if somebody was trying to demote them.

My grandmother used to embarrass me more, when she would pick me up from school wearing a big fuzzy hat. I didn’t like that.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.

I like playing for the purple and gold. This is where I want to finish up.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

I’m half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That’s why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I’ve seen so many.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.

Yeah, I’m an open book.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

If the rate of expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, it would have recollapsed before it reached its present size. On the other hand, if it had been greater by a part in a million, the universe would have expanded too rapidly for stars and planets to form.

If you write in the same way over and over again, like, in the same place with the same techniques and with the same people, you’re sort of writing the same song over and over again.

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

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

I just want to be myself.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

I trust Russia and China and Iran and North Korea like I trust a Jussie Smollett police report.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don’t know how to read, you don’t know how to decide. That’s the great thing about our country – we’re a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

If you want to cut your own throat, don’t come to me for a bandage.

You don’t look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

It is easier to stay out than get out.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.

All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.

You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.