Random Inspirational Quotes

"If there was one thing that life has taught me, it’s to accept the most foolish and unthinkable happiness."

"I don't pray really, because I don't want to bore God."

"I won't telephone him. I'll never telephone him again as long as I live. He'll rot in hell, before I'll call him up. You don't have to give me strength, God; I have it myself. If he wanted me, he could get me. He knows where I am. He knows I'm waiting here. He's so sure of me, so sure. I wonder why they hate you, as soon as they are sure of you."

"In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport."

"My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad jobthat he isn't worth discussing."

"Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet."

"The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope."

"Making benches is no walk in the park. It takes one a lot of love to make a bench, and then it takes two to make love on that bench."

"There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That’s perfectly all right: it’s the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science is a self-correcting process."

"With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing."

"'Hill Street,' because of the wacky nature of many of our characters, really allowed us to indulge a kind of cheek-to-jowl juxtaposition of high drama with very low humor."

"If knowledge isn't self-knowledge it isn't doing much, mate. Is the universe expanding? Is it contracting? Is it standing on one leg and singing 'When Father Painted the Parlour'? Leave me out. I can expand my universe without you. 'She walks into beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies, and all that's best of dark and bright meet in her aspect and her eyes."

"Love makes us such fools."

"Because he has the best equipment in the City and he knows how to use it!"

"Just do what you were going to do, before you said you were going to do it."

"When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead."

"All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low."

"There is a sacredness in tears....They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love."

"I've learned that I'm most powerful when I'm doing my art."

"Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls."