Best Quotes Around the World

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

India should walk on her own shadow – we must have our own development model.

My movies just kind of sneak up on you. I don’t have to worry too much about what everybody is going to say. Anyway, I really don’t pay attention to what the world says about my movies. I just care about what my buddies think.

If I have something to say, I want it to be meaningful.

As a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I’m concerned about the recklessness of public policy that endangers people’s lives, especially in minority communities, where crime often is such a scourge.

A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.

A grown man should always carry cash, right? I don’t know who told me, but someone told me that a long time ago, and the biggest turnoff is when a guy doesn’t have cash on him.

Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

We must reinforce argument with results.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

I’m the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it’s still about the work.

I have taken taking my music to labels for years, and everyone just thought it was creepy. They thought the images with the music were weird and verging on psychotic.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can’t fix the weather – you just have to get on with it.

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

I saw ‚Magic Mike,‘ and I thought it was great.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives… inside ourselves.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance of fruits. But alms given to those who are yet under the tyrannical yoke of the passions are like seed deposited in a bad soil. The passions of the receiver of the alms choke, as it were, the growth of merits.

The art is long, life is short.

The Public is merely a multiplied ‚me.‘

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

I want to be Robin to Bush’s Batman.

Anonymous comments? You’re not in the arena, man. If you can’t say it to me in person in front of my kids, don’t say it.

People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one’s children will become than for the children one’s ‚mature‘ critics often are.

Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

I don’t look at myself as a commodity, but I’m sure a lot of people have.

I made an album I’m very proud of, and that’s about it.

I always wanted to be a Vine star. I wasn’t, thank God.

I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast – talk them or write them down.

Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

When people protest and are upset with a movie, it becomes a big hit. They hated Passion of The Christ, it worked out pretty well for the box office. So let’s get that going.

Information is not knowledge.

I was willing to accept what I couldn’t change.

Wit is educated insolence.

I don’t know which will go first – rock ‚n‘ roll or Christianity.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it… I can resist everything but temptation.

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.