Random Inspirational Quotes

"The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope."

"If you can't do great things, Mother Teresa used to say, do little things with great love. If you can't do them with great love, do them with a little love. If you can't do them with a little love, do them anyway.Love grows when people serve."

"I can sell you wine and I can sell you flowers, but I can't sell you romance, because that comes from your heart, and it's free."

"Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom of something it must be profound. It is so timid and dislikes going into the water."

"Your problem is how you are going to spend this one and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are."

"Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that."

"The Encyclopedia--the advance artillery of reason, the armada of philosophy, the siege engine of the enlightenment..."

"Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful."

"The presence of God is so important in the life of believers. There is abundance of all you need to make your life comfortable in His presence."

"True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing."

"I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can't tell fast enough, the ears that aren't big enough, the eyes that can't take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone."

"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."

"Once, he hadn't been able to touch her without causing himself pain. Now, it only hurt when he didn't touch her."

"There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world."

"The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it."

"All novels are sequels; influence is bliss."

"You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter."

"Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see."

"[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived."

"Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails a heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind."