Best Quotes Around the World

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling. I don’t want to open up my cornflakes and find that they’re full of pebbles… You need to respect the reader enough not to call it something it isn’t.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that’s making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

My comedy is different every time I do it. I don’t know what the hell I’m doing.

I’ve seen a look in dogs‘ eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.

I was a chemistry major, but I’m always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I’ve brought scientific thinking to literature. There’s been very little gratitude for this.

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

I think Americans generally are not used to working very hard, in terms of working for the collective. I think in our country we have taken individualism to its farthest reaches, possibly.

My parents pretty much realized that I would do whatever I wanted, and that was it, really.

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Self-government does not and should not imply the use of political agencies alone. Progress is born of cooperation in the community – not from governmental restraints.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

I’ll stay in Memphis.

Well done is better than well said.

Electrical science has disclosed to us the more intimate relation existing between widely different forces and phenomena and has thus led us to a more complete comprehension of Nature and its many manifestations to our senses.

Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

Me only have one ambition, y’know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together – black, white, Chinese, everyone – that’s all.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

The secret to humor is surprise.

Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.

Friends accept you the way you are.

There are some members of the House leadership whose only mission in life is to demonize the president.

There are thousands of Palestinians in prison virtually for no reason.

Every time I think that I’m getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

When I first started making ambient music, I was setting up systems using synthesizers that generated pulses more or less randomly. The end result is a kind of music that continuously changes. Of course, until computers came along, all I could actually present of that work was a piece of its output.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

The earth is bountiful, and where her bounty fails, nitrogen drawn from the air will refertilize her womb. I developed a process for this purpose in 1900. It was perfected fourteen years later under the stress of war by German chemists.

It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

I’ve always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

I like entertaining people. I really miss it.

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

Wandering around the web is like living in a world in which every doorway is actually one of those science fiction devices which deposit you in a completely different part of the world when you walk through them. In fact, it isn’t like it, it is it.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

I’ll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it’s disappointing.

I’ve been asked this question so many times, do you feel you need to write a book for adults? No, I don’t need to write a book for adults.

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

The newspapers of the twenty-first century will give a mere ‚stick‘ in the back pages to accounts of crime or political controversies, but will headline on the front pages the proclamation of a new scientific hypothesis.