Best Quotes Around the World

I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing ‚Maria‘ from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.

Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves – who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

The foolish man conceives the idea of ‚self.‘ The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of ‚self;‘ thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

Hawaiian music is beautiful and simple.

Better is the enemy of good.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.

In any decision for action, when you have to make up your mind what to do, there is always a ‚should‘ involved, and this cannot be worked out from, ‚If I do this, what will happen?‘ alone.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

I think I’ve got wiser.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn’t bother to find new ones.

What’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

Don’t forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

If you believe that tax policy has nothing to do with the economy, then you’re pretty much like a rock, only dumber.

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.

If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can’t control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I’m just not going to go outside the house. I’m going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

Things do not always happen the way I would like them to happen, and I had better get used to that.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

I think you’re working and learning until you die.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.

One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I’m a woman. That is the way all females should feel.

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

He that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man.

You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

I used to draw a lot. If my mother would ask me to do something else, I’d have a hairy conniption. I’d just go crazy.

If you appear in the ‚Atlantic‘ or ‚Harper’s‘ or the ‚New Yorker,‘ by God, you must be a writer, because everybody says so.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

I just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that I love, too. But it’s a disaster that we have moved so far from nature.

I used to be a great fan of doing crosswords. When you’re fiddling around with anagrams, you get wonderful jumbles of syllables that become interesting.

I can be a cruel person.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.