Famous Quotes

"You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action. Without action upon an idea, there will be no manifestation, no results, and no reward"

"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for."

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

"We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools."

"The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise."

"Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes."

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

"But that was life: Nobody got a guided tour to their own theme park. You had to hop on the rides as they presented themselves, never knowing whether you would like the one you were in line for...or if the bastard was going to make you throw up your corn dog and your cotton candy all over the place."

"Granny was an old-fashioned witch. She didn’t do good for people, she did right by them."

"Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle."

"Discipline allows magic. To be a writer is to be the very best of assassins. You do not sit down and write every day to force the Muse to show up. You get into the habit of writing every day so that when she shows up, you have the maximum chance of catching her, bashing her on the head, and squeezing every last drop out of that bitch."

"A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished."

"If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be—a Christian."

"Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant."

"It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what.", The Guardian, 5 June 2005]"

"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity."

"Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times."

"The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom."

"He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute."

"The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God."

"It seems that a profound, impartial, and absolutely just opinion of our fellow-creatures is utterly unknown. Either we are men, or we are women. Either we are cold, or we are sentimental. Either we are young, or growing old. In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly, and see them depart with such anguish, being shadows. And why, if this -- and much more than this is true -- why are we yet surprised in the window corner by a sudden vision that the young man in the chair is of all things in the world the most real, the most solid, the best known to us--why indeed? For the moment after we know nothing about him.Such is the manner of our seeing. Such the conditions of our love."