Best Quotes Around the World

Because the Internet is so new, we still don’t really understand what it is. We mistake it for a type of publishing or broadcasting, because that’s what we’re used to. So people complain that there’s a lot of rubbish online, or that it’s dominated by Americans, or that you can’t necessarily trust what you read on the Web.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don’t have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don’t have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh.

It’s no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.

People think because I’ve got some success, I’ve made it, but in my eyes it’s like, ‚How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?‘ Not that I’m trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It’s very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water, air, food and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated roads and in subways. It will become next to impossible to contract disease germs or get hurt in the city, and country folk will got to town to rest and get well.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

I’m ugly.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

Mine is better than ours.

I used to meditate all the time in bed. That was when I was raising my daughter, and I’d get her up and off to school, and then I would go back to bed and meditate. And then I would do the same in the evening, and that was very good for that period because I had so many things to juggle as a single mother.

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

The truth is, I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let men sometimes fool themselves.

Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don’t have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.

Rhythm is something you either have or don’t have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

We have the best government that money can buy.

The ear is the avenue to the heart.

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

One reason I don’t want to play in England again is because we don’t have any personalities.

It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen years before the basic inventions for wireless which I gave to the world in 1893 were applied universally.

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

If I had a time machine, I’d visit Marilyn Monroe in her prime or drop in on Galileo as he turned his telescope to the heavens.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.

Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.

One thing Britons have always been celebrated for, and that is being able to stick it out in a tight place.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.

People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.