Best Quotes Around the World

I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it.

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

Little children, you are from God, and have conquered them; for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in this world.

I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places.

You shouldn’t have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.

If you’re nice to me I’ll never write anything bad about you.

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

Some people would like me to be round again.

When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture.

I was an overnight sensation.

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

My one big regret is that I didn’t play on for ten more years.

Well begun is half done.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

Pop music can absorb so many peculiar talents, ranging from the completely nonmusical poseur who just uses music as a kind of springboard for a sense of style, to people who just love putting all that complicated stuff together, brick by brick, on their computers, to people like me who like playing conceptual games and being surprised.

I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader – or any person – in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.

Morse conquered his electrical difficulties although he was only a painter, and I don’t intend to give in either till all is completed.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?

Only the really plain people know about love – the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.

It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.

Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

I’ve got a very interesting background.

I don’t generally read reviews.

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.

I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.

Among all the marvels of modern invention, that with which I am most concerned is, of course, air transportation. Flying is perhaps the most dramatic of recent scientific attainment. In the brief span of thirty-odd years, the world has seen an inventor’s dream first materialized by the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk become an everyday actuality.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What’s the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

I can handle pain.

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

Most men are within a finger’s breadth of being mad.

Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.

I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I’m singing now is what makes the money.

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

When you’re around kids you can be a little kid yourself and pretend that life is magic and you don’t have to be one of those sweaty people going to work every day.

There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.

Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.

I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

Hundreds of people who’ve never written before send in ‚Dr. Who‘ scripts. They may have good ideas, but what they fail to realise is that writing for TV is incredibly complicated. They have no idea how difficult it is and what the financial commitment is.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

There are too many people that depend on me. I’m too obligated. I’m in too far to get out.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.