Best Quotes Around the World

Women don’t try to use me.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Heaven means to be one with God.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.

I still get very scared when I step in front of a live audience.

Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

Bob Marley isn’t my name. I don’t even know my name yet.

When I took over as president, I studied the Constitution, and the more I studied it, the more I realised that it does not prevent the president of India from giving the nation a vision. So when I went and presented this vision in Parliament and in legislative assemblies; everyone welcomed it, irrespective of party affiliations.

I consider anybody a twerp who hasn’t read ‚Democracy in America‘ by Alexis de Tocqueville. There can never be a better book than that one on the strengths and vulnerabilities inherent in our form of government.

War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn’t surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.

If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

I’ve often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

The main message of Climate Revolution is that climate change is caused by the rotten financial system we’ve got, designed to create poverty and rip off any profits for a small amount of rich people. Meanwhile, it destroys the earth.

Memory… is the diary that we all carry about with us.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.

We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we’ve chosen to do with our life.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die – and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

I’m sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.

Most game music is based on loops effectively.

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

A woman has the age she deserves.

Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering.

I have never cared especially for outdoor sports and have no desire to excel at tennis, swimming, or golf. I’ll leave those things to the men.

Although I write screenplays, I don’t think I’m a very good writer.

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

The mere thought hadn’t even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.

The environment that we call society is created by past generations; we accept it, as it helps us to maintain our greed, possessiveness, illusion.

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.

Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I’m not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.

My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.

Exploration by real people inspires us.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

I started out as a poet. I’ve always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.

I don’t like people going behind my back.

When I worked on a magazine, I learned that there are many, many writers writing that can’t write at all; and they keep on writing all the cliches and bromides and 1890 plots, and poems about Spring and poems about Love, and poems they think are modern because they are done in slang or staccato style, or written with all the ‚i’s‘ small.

A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.