Best Quotes Around the World

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

I’d like to think I’m a great teacher.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

Louisiana’s spicy, colorful politics have saddled our state with a reputation for tolerating lax ethical standards in government.

I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It’s totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.

I’ve watched a lot of people who became famous who completely change and I think it’s because they tend to believe all the hype that’s out there. I don’t think there’s that much hype about me.

The Black Mamba collection of watches is me: It is my alter ego, so to speak. As I mentioned before, it is sharp, cutting edge and sleek which are characteristics I try to apply when I’m out there on the basketball court.

You have to stay faithful to what you’re working on.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

You can’t really imagine music without technology.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.

To those whose talents are above mediocrity, the highest subjects may be announced. To those who are below mediocrity, the highest subjects may not be announced.

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

Gentleness doesn’t get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don’t know who or what, maybe myself.

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax.

In Beverly Hills… they don’t throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows.

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.

When I was a child I thought I saw an angel. It had wings and kinda looked like my sister. I opened the door so some light could come into the room, and it sort of faded away. My mother said it was probably my Guardian Angel.

Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.

Wherever I go, as long as I get a hot vegetable dish, I am okay. If I am in Gujarat, I have Gujarati food. If it’s Shillong, it’s northeastern.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

If we turn our backs of the Scythians who have provoked us, how shamefully shall we march against the revolted Bactrians; but if we pass Tanais and make the Scythians feel, by dear experience, that we are invincible, not in Asia only, it is not to be doubted but that Europe itself, as well as Asia, will come within the bounds of our conquests.

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

I’m not a very creative person, you know? I’m not really an art person. I’m not a great reader or writer or artist or musician.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone’s grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.

Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of ‚like‘ has spread through the idiom of the young. And it’s true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, driving out the rest of the vocabulary as candy expels vegetables.

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

I don’t plot my books rigidly, follow a preconceived structure. A novel mustn’t be a closed system – it’s a quest.

Confidentially, the type of male I find most enjoyable for a friend is one who has enough fire and assurance to speak up for his convictions.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.