Best Quotes Around the World

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

It’s a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they’re different. It’s very limiting.

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

Death wasn’t part of God’s original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy – the last enemy to be destroyed.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office.

In those days, the early 1980s, TV and film were interchangeable.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Maybe ‚loner‘ is too strong a word, but I’ve always enjoyed being on my own.

I sang a song at my sister’s wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.

Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

It’s not a faith in technology. It’s faith in people.

The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired.

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

I make it a rule never to smoke while I’m sleeping.

I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

When I was little, I used to adore gold. It was something special.

The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

I really wanted to be a model when I was little. I loved photography, and I loved being on camera. But I was short and chubby, so I couldn’t. Anyway, being an artist is way more interesting than just being a model because it’s about you and what you want to be. You’re not being treated like a clothes hanger.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it’s the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone’s talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false ‚intelligence‘ and selected ‚leaks.‘

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

I read poetry to save time.

In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.

When you’re so busy shooting 12 hours a day, you just eat what someone sticks in front of you.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

A good model of how to ‚work with the enemy‘ internally is presented by the Dalai Lama, in his endless caretaking of his soul as he confronts the Chinese government that invaded Tibet.

I do understand it’s not easy to run an I-league club. I have been part of many and I know the scene.

But I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.

I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

I’ve never been one to sit back and go, ‚I’d better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don’t want to lose them.‘

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.