Random Inspirational Quotes

"So I don’t think I’ll make Poet Laureate,but I swear I’m not twisted and bitter,If finely-wrought talentsdon’t weigh in the balance,I can always write haiku on Twitter."

"Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience."

"Spirituality and Aging Spirituality comes naturally to the old because they're running out of options."

"Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope."

"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting."

"Don't doubt yourself, that's what haters are for."

"Senility [10w] Senility's like a bottle of Coke that lost its bubbles."

"Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering, hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until at last rage draw out of thee that dream-power which every night shows thee is thine own; a power transcending all limit and privacy, and by virtue of which a man is the conductor of the whole river of electricity."

"Inspiration vs. Plagiarism [10w] Inspiration is improving on another's idea;plagiarism is copy/paste piracy."

"Knowledge unqualified is knowledge simply of something learned."

"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them."

"What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?"

"Treaty with Tripoli, Art. 11. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion;"

"Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins."

"For me, 'Lamb' started out as a further exploration of the phenomenon of faith and the responsibility of a messiah that I touched on in 'Coyote Blue' and 'Island of the Sequined Love Nun,' but it ended up being an exploration of the true meaning of sacrifice, loyalty, and friendship."

"My cat is ignorant of the law. But then so am I. That means I am not his master, because we are both slaves."

"It never gets easier, missing you. And sometimes I wonder if it ever will."

"Hellman's Mayonnaise: Bring out the Hellman's and bring out the best... ...artery clogger since Burger King’s Triple Whopper with Cheese."

"Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire and longing; she found joyless days of distasteful occupation harder and harder; she found the image of the intense and varied life she yearned for, and despaired of, becoming more and more importunate."

"Truth resists being projected into the realm of knowledge."