Best Quotes Around the World

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

Life is a song to me.

Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn’t anticipate.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

I’ve learned through my own relationship with God that He’s not expecting me to be perfect; He wants me to do my best to be in His will and take steps of faith as He leads me, through His Word and the promptings He speaks to my heart.

My son is becoming me – just a silly, silly prankster guy.

People have a negative impression of New York that I don’t think is quite fair.

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.

Technology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop.

America has absorbed people from around the world, and there is an Indian in every part of the world. This characterizes both the societies. Indians and Americans have co-existed in their natural temperament.

We just cannot worry about ourselves.

I don’t mind saying, you know, that I don’t take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.

Facts are not interesting to me.

You think I’m going to ask these sweet 14 year olds to ask their parents to buy a $100 ticket then run around in latex and lip sync? No way.

I’m a studio rat.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.

I explain the law of compensation like this: ‚Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time.

We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.

When I go to a restaurant, yeah, I know that a line is probably going to form in front of the table, but didn’t I always wish for that? Yeah, I did.

I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.

We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all – most of us, anyway – want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.

I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly.

Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.

Cameras aren’t guns. They can’t really hurt you.

I really am a fan of Ye’s music.

You get a lawyer whether you’re in a military tribunal or whether you’re in a federal court, number one. The attorney general decided that the court with the biggest – with the greatest venue, with the best jurisdiction was the New York court. That was the right decision to make.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God’s Word that showed me I wasn’t living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?

A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people’s hope.

In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

‚This guy’s a clown! He’s just all talk!‘ I’ve heard that many times in my career. And then they’re sleeping in the middle of the octagon.

The one badge of Christian discipleship is not orthodoxy but love.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

When you read, I’m sure you don’t realize that your eyes are going backwards and forwards and to this place and that place. Mine don’t do that.

My daughter has impressions that she does of me.

Giving up cannot be an option.

If there’s a pregnancy rumor, people will find out it’s not true when you wind up not being pregnant, like nine months from now, and if there’s a house rumor, they’ll find out it’s not true when you are actively not ever spotted at that house.

Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

I don’t argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus‘ message was simple.

Well, in order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times.

I don’t make people bend over backwards, and I don’t like that in people. I am definitely no diva.

Success is not a stop sign.

Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn’t accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else’s insistence or someone else’s whim or convenience.

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.

Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?