Best Quotes Around the World

I’m still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

A good boxing competition gives one the sight of fine men in their prime, trained to the ounce, showing the highest skill, pluck and endurance in carrying out their attack and defence under strict rules of fair play and good temper.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

There is no unique picture of reality.

The Medici created and destroyed me.

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.

Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

‚Classic.‘ A book which people praise and don’t read.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

I think the reason I don’t read is because, when I’m reading, I feel like I’m missing out on something else. You know, What are my friends doing? Where’s my girlfriend?

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It’s just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

I was a naturally aggressive left-back, a cut-throat tackler.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

It’s often just enough to be with someone. I don’t need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You’re not alone.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

I’m the proof – you can’t throw away tradition.

When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home’s potential for positive influence.

Where liberty is, there is my country.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

My personal feelings are my personal feelings. I don’t want to express them with anyone except for a very few people. It doesn’t do any good. It really doesn’t.

I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.

In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can’t help it. It’s the truth.

I often work by avoidance.

To you I’m an atheist; to God, I’m the Loyal Opposition.

Politically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

I don’t consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it’s a very poor scheme for survival.

Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.

Sometimes I’ll jot a clever turn of phrase down. Sometimes I’ll just remember it.

To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.

I’m such a kid at heart.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Maybe I should say that memory interests me a great deal, because I think we all tell stories of our lives to ourselves as well as to other people. Well, women do, anyway. Women do this a lot. And I think when men get older, they do this too, but maybe in slightly different terms.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.