Best Quotes Around the World

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

I’ve tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate… but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

This is America. You’re entitled to believe what you want.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

My hair grows and grows; you cannot stop it – that fellow grows, it grows wild.

Don’t bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don’t feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.

I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn’t just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one.

I’m not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it’s like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

I don’t like two stories. I like one story. I never grew up with stairs. I like to stick to what I know.

The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter – for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

He who can be, and therefore is, another’s, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

I like to work.

You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also… your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

Concentration is my motto – first honesty, then industry, then concentration.

Great loves too must be endured.

Black men don’t like to be called ‚boys,‘ but women accept being called ‚girls.‘

I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.

I was the only kid who anybody I knew has ever seen actually walk into a lamppost with his eyes wide open. Everybody assumed that there must be something going on inside, because there sure as hell wasn’t anything going on on the outside!

I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I’ve already made them.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.

Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don’t really give a toss whether they’re playing or not because they’re getting paid anyway.

When I first saw a picture of the crucifixion, I lost respect for my parents. I suddenly realised that this is what the adult world is like – full of cruelty and hypocrisy.

‚Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

I ran into Isosceles. He had a great idea for a new triangle!

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.