Random Inspirational Quotes

"I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be."

"To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body."

"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength."

"It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race."

"Listen within to find shining poetry and hear extraordinary music. You are a work of art."

"Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?"

"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change."

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."

"Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."

"People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome."

"Ranger locked eyes with me. "Please,"he said.Tank and Hal were goggle-eyed. They weren't used to "please."I wasn't used to it either. But I liked it. Okay,"I said. "Be careful. He's insane."

"Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is."

"See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it. And the very act of living is a tide: at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded."

"Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination."

"Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as writer."[1967 interview]"

"I bleed ink for her, because her name is written on my heart. She’s the author of all the love I have to give."

"My hands will get dirty holding your rose-shaped heart, because love is like gardening—it’s earthy and takes work to keep it alive."

"Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question: why would we trade a system that has served us so well for one that has served others so poorly?"

"If you have good songs and a real desire to make music, the next thing to do, instead of approach record companies, is to get yourself a really good manager because then it allows you to focus on your profession of being a musician. Then they can focus on the darker art of the record label and the music industry."

"It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out."