Random Inspirational Quotes

"Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern."

"I want to show another side of Middle Easterners. My hope is that I would be able to play a variety of parts, and not always be the guy with the accent."

"You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe."

"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."

"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."

"We live in a world where bad stories are told, stories that teach us life doesn't mean anything and that humanity has no great purpose. It's a good calling, then, to speak a better story. How brightly a better story shines. How easily the world looks to it in wonder. How grateful we are to hear these stories, and how happy it makes us to repeat them."

"No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible."

"Informal HP Survey: Should Poetry Rhyme? O.K., readers, anybody who thinks poetry should rhymeplease tap your caneor jiggle your walker."

"Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things."

"There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face."

"But hope, I can tell you, is an exhausting emotion; perhaps, along with fear, the most exhausting of all. It is like juggling eggs: the hope is the shell, and inside is despair. A single crack and the despair might spill everywhere, stain everything."

"I Am In Love With Myself, With My Heart."

"And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it."

"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."

"A kiss may ruin a human life"

"If the world was made for us, then it BELONGS to us and we can do what we damn well please with it."

"They alone live, who live for others."

"What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that truly show and create a hero? Is the light truly the source of darkness or vice versa? Is the soul a source of hope or despair? Who are these so called heroes and where do they come from? Are their origins in obscurity or in plain sight?"

"I know the X’s and O’s of football. I just don’t know the other 24 letters. And as a writer, this bothers me."

"There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy."