Best Quotes Around the World

My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when – and he won’t necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either.

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war – for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I’d say we deserve ours more.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

It is all fiction, only autobiographical in the sense it is about a small town. None of the incidents in the book ever happened to me as a child. I didn’t have an eventful childhood.

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

I don’t do any vulgar movements.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.

Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that’s what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.

The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.

I don’t think about that. I wasn’t a kid growing up saying one day I’ll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn’t on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.

I’ll never feel comfortable taking a strong drink, and I’ll never feel easy smoking a cigarette. I just don’t think those things are right for me.

Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

My knowledge of electrical subjects was not acquired in a methodical manner but was picked up from such books as I could get hold of and from such experiments as I could make with my own hands.

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

Those movies sure got me into a rut.

I don’t want to hear the word ‚can’t.‘

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

I just dress like… I’m an old black man. Sorry! Like I’m an old Jewish black man. I just dress like it’s still the ’50s.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

For me it’s always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it’s always sound first and then the line afterwards.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

I remember the first time I heard a teenager say ‚LOL.‘ Just what? But it means ‚laugh.‘ Why don’t you just laugh? What are you doing?

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

I did the Ed Sullivan show four times. I did the Steve Allen show. I did the Jackie Gleason show.

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

Don’t despair, not even over the fact that you don’t despair.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

I don’t think I’m bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

The ‚morality of compromise‘ sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don’t compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

Change in all things is sweet.

I grew up cursing a lot.

Hear reason, or she’ll make you feel her.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

The centre of the system of the world is immovable.

Aviation offered such fun as crossing the continent in planes large and small, trying the whirling rotors of an autogiro, making record flights. With these activities came opportunity to know women everywhere who shared my conviction that there is so much women can do in the modern world and should be permitted to do irrespective of their sex.

Blushing is the color of virtue.

After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.