Best Quotes Around the World

For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity.

Nature hates calculators.

I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

In my relationship with God, I’ve learned that if I follow a ‚formula‘ for how I spend my time with Him, then I’m just accomplishing a checklist of things I feel obligated to do to please Him. This makes my spiritual life more about doing what I need to do to fulfill an obligation than something meaningful.

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.

When secular figures are turned into divinities, they way they are in Peian Yang or Stanford University – that I don’t like.

I don’t think that women need to smell interesting.

I’m not afraid to write my feelings in songs.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

Socialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products at better prices.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

I can no longer type, so I use TalkingPoint and Dragon Dictate. It’s a speech-to-text program, and there’s an add-on for talking which some guys came up with.

A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.

I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.

As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I’d written? Yes. There’s many of them!

Most of my short stories are fantasy.

My mother, my grandmother, my uncles would play Ethiopian artists like Aster Aweke and Mulatu Astatke all the time in the house.

Men’s vows are women’s traitors!

So when I speak in front of thousands, tens of thousands of people, I don’t really get nervous because I know what I want to say and I know what message I want to give.

When I was in high school, there were these British blues-rock-type bands with really good guitar players that would jam on one song for half an hour. And as much as I was amazed by some of those guitar players, seeing them prompted me to make a note that that’s not something I could do.

I didn’t try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.

There are a whole bunch of roles where people say, ‚Oh, you’re playing yourself.‘ I guess it’s kind of a compliment. Or people say, ‚Oh, man, you just roll out of bed and do that.‘ The work is to make it look effortless. That’s the hard part.

Stand-up can take you in so many different places, man. So many doors can be opened up from stand-up comedy, and the first one that was opened up for me was acting.

I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.

Anyone who’s traveled with me to Afghanistan knows why I love this book: ‚War,‘ by Sebastian Junger.

Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support – a significant problem in the software industry.

I want to thank my Eritrean fans for feeling connected to me and for supporting me. I feel extremely grateful.

Why should Iran have a deterrent strategy? Well, it’s surrounded by hostile enemies. Both of its borders have been under occupation by a hostile superpower, the United States, which is constantly violating the U.N. charter by leaving open what they call the saying, ‚all options are open‘ – meaning the threat of war.

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one – it’s the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky – in the big cities, too, for that matter.

The Roman Curia has its defects, but it seems to me that people often overemphasize its defects and talk too little about the health of the many religious and laypeople who work there.

Yes, God does expect us to live holy, consecrated lives. But not even the best of our intentions can make it happen. Thankfully, He doesn’t expect us to make ourselves holy. He just wants us to learn to depend on Him to make us holy.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.

Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies.

Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.

I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.

Akron, Ohio, is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron, Ohio, is my life.

A woman’s heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

I know who I am, I know what I can and can’t do. I know what I will and won’t do. I know what I’m capable of and I don’t agree to do things that I don’t think I can pull off.

I understand everybody in this country doesn’t agree with the decisions I’ve made. And I made some tough decisions. But people know where I stand.

I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that.

I’m a geek.

The greatest story of all is Colonel Sanders. He didn’t start until he was sixty-six on a freeway bypass for his chicken shop. Anything is possible!

India does not need to become anything else. India must become only India. This is a country that once upon a time was called the golden bird.

There’s hope for everyone. That’s what makes the world go round.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue. That’s not my issue.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

I train and I go home, and when I’m home, I think about training. That’s my life every day, and that’s it.

O, had I but followed the arts!

To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against the wall to make them bounce. That’s what Norman Mailer did. That’s what James Baldwin did, and Joan Didion did, and that’s what I do – that’s what I mean to do.

It’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.

I think Weetabix and full-fat milk is what it is all about.

The bravest person I’ve ever met was a young boy going through massive amounts of treatment for a very rare, complex and unpleasant disease. I last saw him at a Discworld convention, where he chose to take part in a game as an assassin. He died not long afterwards, and I wish I had his fortitude and sense of style.