Random Inspirational Quotes

"Wisdom is the reward for surviving our own stupidity."

"What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying."

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."

"True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us."

"Money may not buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus."

"Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself."

"Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff."

"When I die, I want them to bury me facedown and ass up so that the whole world can kiss my ass!"

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

"The world is dark, and light is precious.Come closer, dear reader.You must trust me.I am telling you a story."

"Our best hope for the future is not to get people to think of all humanity as family - that's impossible. It lies, instead, in an appreciation of the fact that, even if we don't empathize with distant strangers, their lives have the same value as the lives of those we love."

"I have a tongue like a rose petal, and when I say I love you, it has the fragrance of truth. My words are my garden, and I’m planting our future."

"Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness."

"S'il n'existait pas Dieu il faudrait l'inventer."(If God did not exist he would have to be invented.)"

"After soul searching, I found myself. Then I found myself giving of myself to a charity that finds missing children. It's great to be found."

"Death is the only wise advisor that we have. Whenever you feel, as you always do, that everything is going wrong and you're about to be annihilated, turn to your death and ask if that is so. Your death will tell you that you're wrong; that nothing really matters outside its touch. Your death will tell you, 'I haven't touched you yet."

"As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music. And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul."

"Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more."

"Some might complain that nuclear disarmament is little more than a dream. But that ignores the very tangible benefits disarmament would bring for all humankind. Its success would strengthen international peace and security. It would free up vast and much-needed resources for social and economic development. It would advance the rule of law."

"The best of us must sometimes eat our words."