Random Inspirational Quotes

"There is a long time in me between knowing and telling."

"But some nights, I must tell you,I go down there after everyone has fallen asleep.I swim back and forth in the echoing blackness.I sing a love song as well as I can,lost for a while in the home of the rain."

"I fall in love with you four times a year: winter, spring, summer, and fall. The leaves may change, but how I feel about you does not."

"Do you really want to be happy? You can begin by being appreciative of who you are and what you've got."

"You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God."

"If everyone could be a successful and rich author, there would be no point in working so hard. Where is the fun in that?"

"The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise."

"Do you know what you are?You are a manuscript oƒ a divine letter.You are a mirror reflecting a noble face. This universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself;everything that you want, you are already that."

"The greatest enemy to fear is truth."

"Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means."

"A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man."

"Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you."

"What have you gained since you haven't prayed? What will you lose if you pray?"

"When Maurice touched a keyboard, it was like something from a movie, magical. He would always give you something from a movie, and you'd go, what did you just play... immediately inspirational writings, amazing. That's what we're going to miss."

"I'm pretty much looking for beauty all the time. It just seems like some days the light is better to see it."

"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit."

"I'm right and you're wrong, I'm big and you're small, and there's nothing you can do about it."

"We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children."

"First of all, never buy a man a plasma TV until you're married. A lot of men once they have a plasma TV they don't need a girlfriend"

"I cannot understand anti-abortion arguments that centre on the sanctity of life. As a species we've fairly comprehensively demonstrated that we don't believe in the sanctity of life. The shrugging acceptance of war, famine, epidemic, pain and life-long poverty shows us that, whatever we tell ourselves, we've made only the most feeble of efforts to really treat human life as sacred."