Random Inspirational Quotes

"I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings."

"Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life."

"If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing."

"I don't want to believe. I want to know."

"I’m always the last in love by exactly one person."

"Everyone knows revenge is a dish best served when you've had enough time to build up enough vitriol and fury."

"Were knowledge all, what were our needTo thrill and faint and sweetly bleed?"

"Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children's books."

"Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost."

"Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside."

"However spontaneous I hope a photograph will look, I always put a lot of thought into how I can make it happen. The very best pictures are the most relaxed, so a lot of fussing around technically can completely break the spell, and everyone freezes up with nerves."

"I ask not for any crownBut that which all may win;Nor try to conquer any worldExcept the one within."

"The Great Way is not named; Great Discriminations are not spoken; Great Benevolence is not benevolent; Great Modesty is not humble; Great Daring does not attack. If the Way is made clear, it is not the Way."

"Do not lose hope — what you seek will be found. Trust ghosts. Trust those that you have helped to help you in their turn. Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story. (from 'Instructions')"

"I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves."

"I want to write my own eulogy, and I want to write it in Latin. It seems only fitting to read a dead language at my funeral."

"Today evolution of human intelligence has advanced us to the stage where most of us are too smart to invent new gods but are reluctant to give up the old ones."

"I wonder if everyone who faces death hurts like this. It's as though for the first time I realize how much just being alive makes my body ache. But I don't want that ache to stop."

"But the truth is, it's not the idea, it's never the idea, it's always what you do with it."(Online journal entry for January 31, 2009)"

"It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined."