Random Inspirational Quotes

"Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth. A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion, or a systems analyst, but it had to start somewhere. This is not science; it is merely metaphor. And the landscape in which the protein "starts"shapes its end as surely as bowls shape water."

"If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose."

"Animals do it largely for the REPRODUCTION, but so-called Social Animals (People) do it regularly thinking that it will give them SATISFACTION."

"The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul."

"I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it."

"Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand-—that and such hope as I bring."

"Know that true change is demonstrated only by your actions around everyone, not just certain people."

"[I]t is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our religious traditions."

"Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest."

"We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power."

"Charity [10w] Contentment over your life is the best aphrodisiac for charity."

"Past/Present/Future I have no problem living in the present,but because of my pastpeople want to kill me in the future."

"He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver."

"Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart."

"Obscenity [10w] Obscenity's undefinable becauseeverything that occurs in nature is natural."

"Books remember all the things you cannot contain."

"On 'Sufferer,' I'm talking about the younger generation that has no other option for success than to find a gun somewhere. I try to appeal to them: 'I know you a sufferer, but it doesn't mean that you can't or shouldn't expect any better.' It's a lot different than from what I usually say, like, 'Get busy, shake that thing.'"

"Too Beautiful for Words [10w] + [10w] When nature presents us with miracles too beautiful for words,it is either a mountain, a beach, or a baby."

"Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual."

"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world."