Random Inspirational Quotes

"He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost."

"Now, I have nothing against the public school system as it is presently organized, once you allow the humor of its basic assumption about how it is possible to teach things to children...."

"I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one."

"I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost."

"To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness."

"If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."

"A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power."

"The decision to empty my mind was a no-brainer."

"I didn't know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose."

"The Night World isn't a place. It's all around us. The creatures of Night World are beautiful and deadly and irresitable to humans. Your best friend could be one-so could your crush."

"If I reveal myself without worrying about how others will respond, then some will care, though others may not. But who can love me, if no one knows me? I must risk it, or live alone."

"I never lie,"I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love."

"It shattered something inside me that hadn't been broken before."

"Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them."

"Mithorden said it well,"she said finally. "It's worshipping death. They say they follow light. But, in the end, they're really following desolation, division, the end of things. You should hear their prophecies -- war, destruction, only special chosen people are spared."She felt sad and angry. Worse, she wondered to what ends people who believed these things would go to assert their views."

"A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life."

"I get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it."

"When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises."

"My brain? That's my second favorite organ."

"Knowledge is as infinite as the universe. The man who claims to know all only reveals to all that he really knows nothing."