Our Quotes

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot teach us how to make the best use of them; the information revolution came without an instruction manual.

When you are real in your music, people know it and they feel your authenticity.

If the people of New Zealand want to be part of our world, I believe they should hop off their islands, and push 'em closer.

This world is clearly emerging before our eyes. The shifts ahead, the opportunities ahead are massive.

Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'.

The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

We began as restless and radical. Remember the spirit of 1997, but by the end of our time in office we had lost our way.

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, and why and for what purpose we are provisionally obliged to abandon it.

Our people are working overtime - I say our people; our federal agencies in this regard - and that I'm confident that the way that you can stop this and make Americans the most protected for this is to take it to the terrorist groups.

As for our majority... one is enough.

The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Two days after moving we recommended ourselves to God, Our Lord, and fled, hoping that, although it was late in the season and the fruits of the tunas were giving out, by remaining in the field we might still get over a good portion of the land.

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.

But I have learned a thing or two; I know as sure as fate, when we lock up our lives for wealth, the gold key comes too late.

Sectarian divide has created a schism in our society that is a major challenge. As monarch of all Bahrainis, it pains me to see many harmed by the actions of a few. And yet I am optimistic and have faith in our people. We all realize that now is the time to strike a balance between stability and gradual reform.

Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.

Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child. Our love is so furious that we burn each other out.

Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.