Random Inspirational Quotes

"1953 It seems the world has gone downhill since the year Sir Edmund Hillary climbed Everest."

"We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves."

"In the new century science will defeat famine, boredom, and the plague, but . . . vital knowledge will become so elevated that nobody will know how anything works. . . . the good news is that everybody will be empowered; the bad news is nobody will understand why."

"We don't get to chose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it."

"I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know."

"It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know."

"No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us happy. If what makes us happy is different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy."

"Everybody’s damaged. It’s just a question of how badly, and whether you’re healing or still bleeding."

"Even if it's absurd to think you can change things, it's even more absurd to believe that it is foolish and unimportant to try."

"Sometimes the sins you haven't committed are all you have left to hold onto."

"Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them."

"I had a dream about you. You were storing my brain in a pickle jar in the fridge, and I only discovered it when I went to garnish my hamburger. Mindless and hungry, I was a US politician’s ideal voter."

"The measure of greatness in a scientific idea is the extent to which it stimulates thought and opens up new lines of research."

"One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to be a successful philosopher. His nature is to view the world in an unpredictable albeit useful light."

"The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache."

"I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it."

"You are always free when you have the ability to think."

"I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived. I believe that all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in the child. . . . that one of the most deeply human, and humane, of these faculties is the power of imagination."

"My success set me up for life, and it meant that I could retire from the music industry at 27 to spend time with my newborn daughter and my wife. My time away from the spotlight allowed me to rediscover my love for music, and I'm doing it for me now and no one else."

"If you want the answer—ask the question."