Best Quotes Around the World

I did this book ‚Harvest for Hope,‘ and I learned so much about food. And one thing I learned is that we have the guts not of a carnivore, but of an herbivore. Herbivore guts are very long because they have to get the last bit of nutrition out of leaves and things.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

I don’t write so much now. I’m getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.

In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that’s what makes them extraordinary.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.

Language is the dress of thought.

What is Apple, after all? Apple is about people who think ‚outside the box,‘ people who want to use computers to help them change the world, to help them create things that make a difference, and not just to get a job done.

How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.

Saints need sinners.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

‚Lives‘ is one of those books I should really have written when I was younger. It is the classic childhood, adolescence, breakthrough-into-maturity book. Every beginning writer has that material – and after that, you’re not sure what you can do.

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

I’ve never bought into any sort of hard and fast, this-box/that-box characterization. People are individuals. Yes, they may be expected to be a particular way. But that doesn’t mean they’re going to be that way.

Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That’s not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that’s what life needs to be – and that if it’s not that, it’s all screwed up. It’s not.

Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it’s different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He’s very quick.

I have dreams, and I want to see them come to fruition.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.

I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I’m afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

It’s an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important… and to feel that you’re being published by people who really don’t get it and/or don’t really care.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders this time?

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?

Mindfulness practices enhance the connection between our body, our mind and everything else that is around us. Mindful living is the key to understanding our struggles with weight and to empowering us to control our weight.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.

I like pin-up girls. I’m more of a boy than a girl. I’m not a lesbian, though – not before a sambuca anyway.

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

I’m going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we’ve had in a couple of hundred years.

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

Who bothers to cook TV dinners? I suck them frozen.

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.

History is more or less bunk.

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

My beauty secret is absolutely no sun.