Random Inspirational Quotes

"Let us pick up our books and our pens,” I said. “They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world."

"Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace it."

"Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven."

"If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it;Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth."

"It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will."

"What makes a good leader? I ask myself this every day, and then as I begin to list off characteristics I realize I’m describing myself. Am I the ideal leader? Let’s just say that if I were running for political office, I know who I’d vote for—twice."

"Every day I think today could be my last day. My only fear is dying without telling her I love her one more time. All I pray for is one more time."

"You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect."

"Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst."

"To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart."

"Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul."

"Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing."

"Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung."

"Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end."

"only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being."

"The point is that no matter what you choose to do with your body when you die, it won't, ultimately, be very appealing. If you are inclined to donate yourself to science, you should not let images of dissection or dismemberment put you off. They are no more or less gruesome, in my opinion, than ordinary decay or the sewing shut of your jaws via your nostrils for a funeral viewing."

"If you have to ask if you’ve done enough, you haven’t. Each day brings with it the opportunity to do more than you did yesterday."

"When you find yourself in hot water, what else can you do but make a spot of tea? I still have a spot of tea on my shirt from yesterday."

"Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.'"

"There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for."