Random Inspirational Quotes

"Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking."

"Here's a news flash: No soldier gives his life. That's not the way it works. Most soldiers who make a conscious decision to place themselves in harm's way do it to protect their buddies. They do it because of the bonds of friendship - and it goes so much deeper than friendship."

"I like the immaterial world. I like to live among thoughts and images of the past and the possible, and even of the impossible, now and then."

"One of my main regrets in life is giving considerable thought to inconsiderate people."

"You rely too much on brain. The brain is the most overrated organ."

"Last night I lost the world, and gained the universe."

"I often wear camouflaged pants so when I walk I look like a floating torso. I love with the same air of mystery."

"The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion"

"I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them."

"anyone who’s worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm."

"When I was in my twenties and broke, I'd buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life."

"Men take care not to make women weep, for God counts their tears."

"Success has always been the greatest liar - and the "work"itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer is disguised by his creations, often beyond recognition; the "work,"whether of the artist or the philosopher, invents the man who has created it, who is supposed to have create it; "great men,"as they are venerated, are subsequent pieces of wretched minor fiction"

"I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language."

"Some people are like thorns. But you have to let them be thorns, because thorns can't turn into petals. The trick is not letting them prick you; never let a thorn prick you!"

"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive."

"A Matter of Perspective I see rain dancing on the stage of the pond.Fish see heaven throwing a thousand kisses.My wife see a drizzle of olive oil on a pot of spaghetti. The scientist sees condensation and precipitation.The rain sees reincarnation.A poet see them all in permutation."

"Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing."

"Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,-Wait and hope."

"Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today."