Best Quotes Around the World

The universal utilization of water power and its long-distance transmission will supply every household with cheap power and will dispense with the necessity of burning fuel. The struggle for existence being lessened, there should be development along ideal rather than material lines.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge – that is everywhere.

The President’s post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.

I got my love of animals from the Dr. Doolittle books and my love of Africa from the Tarzan novels. I remember my mum taking me to the first Tarzan film, which starred Johnny Weissmuller, and bursting into tears. It wasn’t what I had imagined at all.

I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.

They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure.

Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music – not like a record that you’d put on, which would play for a while and finish.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

Stand a little less between me and the sun.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

We are not trying to entertain the critics. I’ll take my chances with the public.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

The universe is not indifferent to our existence – it depends on it.

After the first day of practice, there’s not one guy who’s playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it just hurts.

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

I love to take, process and share photos – it fills me up.

People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of everything.

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

I’m not trying to be sexy. It’s just my way of expressing myself when I move around.

Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don’t have that?

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

Rock ‚n‘ roll is ridiculous. It’s absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we’re wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

One picture is worth 1,000 denials.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

He that does good to another does good also to himself.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

Give a critic an inch, he’ll write a play.

Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951.

I’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

He would make a lovely corpse.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

It’s human nature to gripe, but I’m going ahead and doing the best I can.

In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible, before his eyes. In this way, seeing everything with the utmost vividness, as if he were a spectator of the action, he will discover what is in keeping with it, and be most unlikely to overlook inconsistencies.

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

I never have an intended audience. I just write, you know.

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.