Best Quotes Around the World

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.

I tend to overthink things. I’m not the guy who screams ‚This is a world smash!‘ when I finish a song.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

The only time to buy these is on a day with no ‚y‘ in it.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.

To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you.

I started writing as a child. But I didn’t think of myself actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something – no, maybe junior – and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

I do love the films I’ve done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we’re trying to make people laugh and I’m very proud of that.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

If there’s something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

Modern science says: ‚The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.‘ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.

Basically, I live to do gigs.

In Germany I have been acknowledged again since the fall of Hitler, but my works, partly suppressed by the Nazis and partly destroyed by the war; have not yet been republished there.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.

The world has today 546 nuclear plants generating electricity. Their experience is being continuously researched, and feedback should be provided to all. Nuclear scientists have to interact with the people of the nation, and academic institutions continuously update nuclear power generation technology and safety.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

I don’t care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter.

I’ve been on a calendar, but I’ve never been on time.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

All I do is work out. Oh my God! Half my life is spent in a gym somewhere, sweating.

Error is always more busy than truth.

I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences in the world. And that is so organic – I use this metaphor a lot but I’ll use it again – it’s like a pine tree producing pine cones, or a blackberry bush producing blackberries – it’s just what happens with this being, now.

Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

Remember, it’s as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.

And no, we don’t know where it will lead. We just know there’s something much bigger than any of us here.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you’re prepared to take the risk of trying them out.

You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it’s going to happen.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

There’s nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, ‚Well, okay, I’m going to do something of high artistic worth.‘

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.

Justice means minding one’s own business and not meddling with other men’s concerns.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

That’s why I hate to get started in these jam sessions. I’m always the last one to leave.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.