Best Quotes Around the World

I’m not the kind of cat that’s going to cut off an ear if I can’t do something.

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

Oh! Most miserable wretch that I am! Why have I not learnt how to swim?

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

God may be subtle, but he isn’t plain mean.

Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong.

We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster – closed and forgotten within the first year.

Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

At Sarah Lawrence, I realized that everybody was already what they were going to be. The painters were painting, the writers writing, the dancers dancing. And nobody wore any makeup. The art was uppermost.

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

I don’t spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that’s how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

I think that sexuality is only attractive when it’s natural and spontaneous.

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents‘ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

The glamour of it all! New York! America!

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

I do like Burial; he’s so curiously clumsy, you can’t help but be moved. It’s so un-Hollywood, and the rhythms are so un-danceable.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man’s insecurity before himself and before nature.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.

If we could establish a deep abiding relationship with nature, we would never kill an animal for our appetite; we would never harm, vivisect, a monkey, a dog, a guinea pig for our benefit. We would find other ways to heal our wounds, heal our bodies.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

I’m very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks.

Even in high school I was very interested in history – why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

When you tell a recruiter that you’re almost 300 pounds and you want to be a SEAL, it doesn’t go too well. I got hung up on a lot.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.

To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I’ve got books I need to read.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.

Don’t hire a prison consultant.

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

Fame doesn’t fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

There’s nothing funnier than the human animal.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.

God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.