Best Quotes Around the World

I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, ‚There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.‘ But I’m not going to worry about them. I’m dreaming the hardest.

It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

To be loved is very demoralizing.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death… these are things that unite us all.

From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.

I just feel that ‚The Color Purple,‘ which was my 10th book, was a true gift from my ancestors.

Man, I really like Vegas.

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil’s propagation.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.

The ideals and principles for which Dr King fought have never been forgotten and are as relevant today as they were 40 years ago.

The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment… If it doesn’t turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we’ve got a system that allows them to do it.

What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.

The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.

When I’m nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes – or just by staring into space.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

I gave my archive to Emory University because there’s a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he’s the editor.

I’m not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become.

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

Our need for certainty in an endeavor as uncertain as raising children makes explicit ‚how-to-parent‘ strategies both seductive and dangerous.

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart’s the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.

There was a time when people said, ‚Jim, if you keep on making faces, your face will freeze like that.‘ Now they just say, ‚Pay him!‘

I like sitting and writing with my buddies.

We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.

Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.

Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‚This is a misfortune‘ but ‚To bear this worthily is good fortune.‘

Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly added to the exactness of our knowledge.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.