It’s the little things in life that add up to big things.

I don’t want to be a flash in the pan.

Everyone has a bookplate these days, and the collectors are after it. The fool and his bookplate are soon parted. To distribute one’s ex libris is inanely to destroy the only significance it has, that of indicating the past or present ownership of the volume in which it is placed

The significance of the law of love is precisely that it is not just another law, but a law which transcends all law.

I can be vilified. I can be misunderstood. I didn’t come here to be liked. I came here to make a difference.

I was pleased my dad communicated in Arabic smoothly – his dad sent him to take Arabic from a sheik – and we had Arab companions. His assignment of understanding the Arabs – governmental issues as well as verse – was significant; he accepted it as employment.

The topic of limits is a significant inquiry of the Jewish individuals on the grounds that the Jews are the incredible specialists of intersection limits. They have a feeling of personality inside themselves that doesn’t allow them to cross limits with others.

What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world’s beauty, is everything!

Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.

Our own life has to be our message.

Comedy opens up doors to speak about things that may not be easily discussed in other settings.

No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you’ve already had.

What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.

But this quantum only takes on its full significance when we try to define it with regard to a concrete natural movement – that is to say, in duration.

White… is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black… God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Without my Savior, I am nothing.

That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.

The distinguishing mark of man is the hand, the instrument with which he does all his mischief.

Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight,
At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more,
When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death,
And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again.

Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart

Until the color of a man’s skin, is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes, me say war.

The anchor in our world today is freedom, holding us steady in times of change, a symbol of hope to all the world.

The key is not to worry about being successful, but to instead to work toward being significant – and the success will naturally follow

The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance – and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.

I really appreciate family, I really can’t imagine life without them.

What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived; it is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.

Daniel was in the greatest credit amongst the Jews, till the reign of the Roman Emperor Hadrian . And to reject his prophecies, is to reject the Christian religion. For this religion is founded upon his prophecy concerning the Messiah .

I remember the philosopher Bertrand Russell was asked why he spent his time protesting against nuclear war and getting arrested on demonstrations. Why didn’t he continue to work on the serious philosophical and logical problems which have major intellectual significance? And his answer was pretty good. He said: “Look, if I and others like me only work on those problems, there won’t be anybody around to appreciate it or be interested.

The place where french-postmodernism has been really harmful is the Third World. Because Third World intellectuals are badly needed in popular movements, they can make contributions. And a lot of them is drawn away from this: antropologists, sociologists and others. They are drawn away in this arcane, and in my view, mostly meaningless discourses and are disassociated from popular struggles. And you can see the impact. They really indicate that the level of irrationality that grows out of this undermines the oportunities for doing something really significant and important. It is like consumerism because it diverts people from concentrating in a serious way and doing something about their own problems.

The significance of a fact is relative to [the general body of scientific] knowledge. To say that a fact is significant in science, is to say that it helps to establish or refute some general law; for science, though it starts from observation of the particular, is not concerned essentially with the particular, but with the general. A fact, in science, is not a mere fact, but an instance. In this the scientist differs from the artist, who, if he deigns to notice facts at all, is likely to notice them in all their particularity.

The wisest mind has something yet to learn

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music

Straw shows which way the wind is blowing

The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.

Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present

Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow – that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

I think that music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer no matter what race or religion or nationality, sexual orientation, gender that you are it has the power to unite us.

We are Madrid, and we want to define our own philosophy. We don’t want to be compared to anyone.

All my future plans are related to Real Madrid, and there are no other clubs on my mind. I’m so happy here along with my family. Few players have ended their career here, Zidane being one of the exceptions. I’d like to be one of those players, too, but time will tell what the future holds.

I always look forward to playing for my national team, especially at a major tournament

I hustle hard, that’s how I survive.

Messi is an incredible player but he can’t do everything alone. In football you need help and it can’t be done alone.

Love the earth and sun and animals. Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks.