Other Quotes

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.

Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.

Ping-pong was invented on the dining tables of England in the 19th century, and it was called Wiff-waff! And there, I think, you have the difference between us and the rest of the world. Other nations, the French, looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to have dinner; we looked at it an saw an opportunity to play Wiff-waff.

There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.

It's interesting to see how other people react to an oversharer.

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

When I came to Los Angeles, it was the first time that I ever felt like I belong somewhere. Not because it was wacky, but because people here understood what I felt like to perform, and there were other kids my age who wanted to do it. I didn't get looked at as God, you freak.

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell.

I became famous, I think, really because of the interpretation of other people's songs, way back when, and that's what I enjoy the most. And I'm a lazy bugger.

Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

I was definitely different from the other kids... I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid.

You're following your track, the story, your only plan, your map for the audience, and all the other stuff is, like, the fun stuff: the costumes, the locations, the set-dressing and the actors. They can all be variable as you like if you stick - however roughly - to the path.

The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

There is one other business where the customer is always wrong and that's the media.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Whatever may be said as to our relations to some other countries, I think the relations of this country to Spain offer no ties of gratitude or of blood.

More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.

There's no other company that could make a MacBook Air and the reason is that not only do we control the hardware, but we control the operating system. And it is the intimate interaction between the operating system and the hardware that allows us to do that. There is no intimate interaction between Windows and a Dell notebook.

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.

Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.

Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided.

You see, we are here, as far as I can tell, to help each other; our brothers, our sisters, our friends, our enemies. That is to help each other and not hurt each other.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.