Inspirational Quotes
I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.
You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt.
As the weeks and months unfolded, we realized that we were the victims of a broken promise.
A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law, or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law.
Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.
The insight to see possible new paths, the courage to try them, the judgment to measure results - these are the qualities of a leader.
You can't keep blaming yourself. Just blame yourself once, and move on." Homer Simpson
This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth.
My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.
The good part about being famous is being able to help people. The hard part is every day you have to be in a good mood, because that is what people expect. You learn to get good at it.
Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this.
Rest, rest, rest, rest, rest. Nutrition is obviously very important, but rest is equally important. At rest is when your body is trying to recover.
One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.
We may live victoriously, not because we have any power within ourselves, but because when we give ourselves to God, He gives himself to us.
Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.
One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.
Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life.
The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance.
People who want to appear clever rely on memory. People who want to get things done make lists.
My husband always felt that a marriage and career don't mix. That's why he's never worked.
True nobility isn't about being better than anyone else; it's about being better than you used to be.
I want to convey how beautiful it is to close your eyes and dream. And then to open them and make that dream a reality.
Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
The worst thing that happens in life is not death. The worst thing would be to miss it. . . . I think the great danger in life is not showing up.
The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight.
If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
Whatever you can imagine is waiting for you, fully created in the invisible, and the way to make it visible is to harness the force of love by imagining and feeling what you love.