Best Quotes Around the World

I read a lot when I’m travelling and always have a couple of books on the go.

Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work.

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

I have no private interest in the reception of my inventions by the world, having never made, nor proposed to make, the least profit by any of them.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

A person who can’t pay gets another person who can’t pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don’t make either of them able to do a walking-match.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

Organized murder is war, and though we demonstrate against a particular war, the nuclear, or any other kind of war, we have never demonstrated against war.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.

I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?

Nothing’s ever easy as long as you go on living.

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

I’d just like to be treated like a regular customer.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon’s unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

When I began in 1960, individuality wasn’t an accepted thing to look for; it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is not hard science. There’s room for intuition.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God’s language – it’s better, it’s finer, it’s language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.

As in nature, all is ebb and tide, all is wave motion, so it seems that in all branches of industry, alternating currents – electric wave motion – will have the sway.

Who, being loved, is poor?

I have no problem yelling at anybody’s kid – free of charge!

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism.

If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?

I would like to be the chronicler of something that I think is going down the drain very swiftly, and that is small-town, middle-class southern life.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.

Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me.

Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone’s guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I’ve experienced them both.

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it’s to have any meaning in this world – and stop being its apologist.

Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.

I was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into the adjoining room, where I could watch the streets below from the windows.

There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

There is no memory or retentive faculty based on lasting impression. What we designate as memory is but increased responsiveness to repeated stimuli.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

You know, my sister sings, my brother plays drums in my band. My whole family is a bunch of musicians.

I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.

I hope I didn’t bore you too much with my life story.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.