Best Quotes Around the World

When the well is dry, they know the worth of water.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded this sweet life-supporting planet – the only one in the whole Milky Way – with a century of transportation whoopee.

And one more thing.

Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and that is its whole secret.

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

I think I’ve committed the one really bad English crime, which is I’ve risen above my station. I was supposed to be a pop star, and suddenly I’m claiming that I’m an artist of some kind.

You reach a point where you don’t work for money.

I’m always happy to blow up any misconceptions that people have about stage school cos everyone thinks it’s really nasty there but it’s not.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

I’ve always felt heroic about my life… As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than they could. I didn’t think that was the case at all. My parents didn’t treat me as a girl.

All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.

At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.

I looked the people of Louisiana in the eye and told them exactly what I thought in terms that normal people use.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

I love Dolce & Gabbana. I love Versace. I love the crazy, more eccentric stuff.

A home without books is a body without soul.

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood – never.

Some people are painters, and some are ballet dancers, and I’m a writer.

Whatever I’m feeling, whatever I’m going through, whatever mood I’m in… If I’m feeling like dancing or clubbing, then it will be reflected in the music. If I’m feeling dark and vulnerable, then it will reflect in the music, too.

The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, ‚Is that a $20 million take?‘ That kind of thing, and being self-critical.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

The Canteen Boy, the reason you feel bad for him and you can laugh is because he, and I guess a lot of my characters, they don’t notice they’re getting made fun of. So they’ll say something back that’s not that great a quip, but in their mind they won the argument.

Generally, a writer of force is anywhere from 20 years to 200 years ahead of his generation.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed in the ash, or saw the results of that, have a tendency to keep seeing echoes and having flashbacks to it.

And whether you’re an honest man, or whether you’re a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

I’ve never been that much of a money guy. I’m more of a film guy, and most of the money I’ve made is in defense of trying to keep creative control of my movies.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

Mind over mattress.

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.

Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

To be able to throw one’s self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman’s smile – that is happiness.

I’d say it’s been my biggest problem all my life… it’s money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.

I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.