Random Inspirational Quotes

"I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well."

"With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?"

"The children are intrigued by these invitation, and it's only a matter of minutes before they find themselves engaged in a new world of possibilities."

"It is possible that these millions of suns, along with thousands of millions more we cannot see, make up altogether but a globule of blood or lymph in the veins of an animal, of a minute insect, hatched in a world of whose vastness we can frame no conception, but which nevertheless would itself, in proportion to some other world, be no more than a speck of dust."

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"The sides of buildings should be like the tops of lakes. I’d fish through your window hoping to catch a smile."

"Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that."

"Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out."

"Yes, the long war on Christianity. I pray that one day we may live in an America where Christians can worship freely! In broad daylight! Openly wearing the symbols of their religion... perhaps around their necks? And maybe -- dare I dream it? -- maybe one day there can be an openly Christian President. Or, perhaps, 43 of them. Consecutively."

"Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it."

"Love changes things; hope allows us to endure until the change arrives."

"Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you."

"My mind is an instrument of peaceI am the peaceMy heart sing the song of peaceMy mind dances with peaceI laugh with peaceMy soul is longing for peaceMy spirit is the source of peace."

"Whether you are an astronomer or a life scientist, geophysicist, or a pilot, you've got to be there because you believe you are good in your field, and you can contribute, not because you are going to get a lot of fame or whatever when you get back."

"I wish I could grow swords like I can roses. Wouldn’t war be so romantic then? Then the U.S. could really show the world how much it loves it."

"It was during my enchanted days of travel that the idea came to me, which, through the years, has come into my thoughts again and again and always happily—the idea that geology is the music of the earth."

"At the end of almost every AA meeting, someone read the Promises. One of these was 'We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it'. Dan thought he would always regret the past, but he had quit trying to shut the door. Why bother, when it would just come open again? The fucking had no latch, let alone a lock."

"I only understand friendship or scorched earth."

"Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don’t know why, and if we do find out why, it’s decades later and knowing why doesn’t matter any more."

"I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You're fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself."