Famous Quotes

"I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could."

"Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly."

"Great acts are made up of small deeds."

"Real love never fails."

"To get what you want, you have to know exactly how much you are willing to give up."

"Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all."

"The difference between false memories and true ones is thesame as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look themost real, the most brilliant."

"Mutual caring relationships require kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism, joy in the other's achievements, confidence in oneself, and the ability to give without undue thought of gain."

"We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light."

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only plan, but also believe!"

"Change isn't easy. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think, means changing what you believe about life. That's hard."

"I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get"

"Better not to give in to it. It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart."

"There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow."

"I ended my first book with the words 'no answer.' I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice? Only words, words; to be led out to battle against other words."

"The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself."

"And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream."

"Blessed are the weird people: poets, misfits, writersmystics, painters, troubadoursfor they teach us to see the world through different eyes."

"Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate."

"Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy answers, and to begin to think multidimensionally, to glory in the mystery and paradoxes of life, not to be dismayed by the multitude of causes and consequences that are inherent in each experience -- to appreciate the fact that life is complex."

"Dreams are the language of God."

"In imagination she sailed over storied seas that wash the distant shining shores of "faëry lands forlorn," where lost Atlantis and Elysium lie, with the evening star for pilot, to the land of Heart's Desire. And she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal."