It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals.
In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue.
I use something that is a real staple in the directing world. It's called a dance floor. You lay it down so that it's so smooth you can roll around, and you can put furniture on top of it. It's seamless and you don't see it.
We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it.
Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.
If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.
I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.
At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.
My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.
When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.
A usurper always distrusts the whole world.