Best Quotes Around the World

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn’t been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.

It’s disgusting, but my father taught me when your mouth gets dry, just suck the sweat out of your own jersey. There’s no bravado to any of it; it’s just a disgusting little trick.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

I’d like to be the last person alive in the world! Yes, I’d like to know what happens.

Having listened to great songwriters like James Taylor and Carole King, I felt there was nothing new that was coming out that really represented me and the way I felt. So I started writing my own stuff.

Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.

I could sing you a thousand and one doo-wop songs. I love the simplicity in that music. It’s not super-poetic, it’s just from the heart.

Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you’re listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

It’s not possible to stop love.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You’d wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

When you draw or paint a tree, you do not imitate the tree; you do not copy it exactly as it is, which would be mere photography. To be free to paint a tree or a flower or a sunset, you have to feel what it conveys to you: the significance, the meaning of it.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

If I’d observed all the rules, I’d never have got anywhere.

Shall I, that have destroyed my Preservers, return home?

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.

I create stars.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.

I don’t have this feeling that 70 is really old.

One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

Being prime minister is a lonely job… you cannot lead from the crowd.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

I don’t know what drives me to succeed.

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.

No man was ever wise by chance.

As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been in my memories as long as I can remember.

I think any man who lets a woman pick what he should wear… I mean, you gotta draw the line somewhere as a man. I see these guys, ‚My wife told me to wear this!‘ And I just shake my head.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

My friends, there are no friends.

We should all start to live before we get too old.

I’ve always felt quite singular, even as a child. That I must stay on track to keep my purpose.

‚Harry Potter‘ gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

God does not play dice.

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.