Famous Quotes

"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness."

"Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes."

"Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life — is the source from which self-respect springs."

"One does no question miracles, or complain that they are no constructed perfectly to one's liking."

"When a man learns to love, he must bear the risk of hatred."

"How quick come the reasons for approving what we like."

"But that was the problem with having the answers. It was only after you gave them that you realized they sometimes weren't what people wanted to hear."

"Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole."

"People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice."

"What I'm not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time."

"If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won't get either a life or a death that means anything."

"People who lack the clarity, courage, or determination to follow their own dreams will often find ways to discourage yours. When you change for the better, the people around you will be inspired to change also....but only after doing their best to make you stop. Live your truth and don't EVER stop."

"He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it."

"Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it...Don't allow his anger to become your anger."

"The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself."

"You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values."

"If you can’t save your own life, is it even worth saving?"

"There will be time, there will be timeTo prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet."

"People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there."

"It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life."

"If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!"

"It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going."