Best Quotes Around the World

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

Self-respect knows no considerations.

My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.

Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.

Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

The eyes of some persons are large, others small, and others of a moderate size; the last-mentioned are the best. And some eyes are projecting, some deep-set, and some moderate, and those which are deep-set have the most acute vision in all animals; the middle position is a sign of the best disposition.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.

The last people with any ideas are young people.

The biggest thing is just routine. I think that’s the biggest correlation between golfers and basketball players.

Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

Many are they who have a taste and love for drawing, but no talent; and this will be discernible in boys who are not diligent and never finish their drawings with shading.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.

Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance.

I think hygiene is so important.

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.

‚Fame‘ exhausts me.

Well I have a microphone and you don’t so you will listen to every damn word I have to say!

See things from the boy’s point of view.

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he’s no longer God… They’ll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.

Ya know what I do almost every day? I wash. Personal hygiene is part of the package with me.

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

Anyone who’s looked into a newborn’s innocent eyes should realize how incredible it is to be blessed with a new life.

I’d sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

One thing that I tell people all the time is, ‚I’m not going to answer a call from you after nine o’clock at night or before nine o’clock in the morning unless it’s an emergency.‘

I don’t even have a TV.

I’m selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I’m out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

It doesn’t take much to make me angry.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

Bravery never goes out of fashion.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.

A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

You’re dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

From infancy, I have relied on the fiercely sweet spirits of black men; and this is abundantly clear in my work.

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly – that is the first law of nature.

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

There are no black holes in the sense of regimes from which light can’t escape to infinity.

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I’m someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.

I often visited a particular plant four or five miles distant, half a dozen times within a fortnight, that I might know exactly when it opened.

I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation’s interests. I believe a free Afghanistan is in this nation’s interest.