Famous Quotes

"There's always a choice,' said Torak, and walked backward off the cliff."

"You soak up my soul and mingle me. Each drop of my blood cries out to the earth. We are partners, blended as one."

"Life is a journey, not a destination; there are no mistakes, just chances we've taken."

"All men are created equal. It is what you do from there that makes the difference. We are all free agents in life. We make our own decisions. We control our own destiny."

"If you want to find happiness, find gratitude."

"Dislike in yourself what you dislike in others."

"We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love."

"Feel the fear and do it anyway!"

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

"The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is beautiful. Now, Let go."

"What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner."

"To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act."

"Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it's what you believe, and the heck with everybody."

"If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore."

"I find it odd- the greed of mankind. People only like you for as long as they perceive they can get what they want from you. Or for as long as they perceive you are who they want you to be. But I like people for all of their changing surprises, the thoughts in their heads, the warmth that changes to cold and the cold that changes to warmth... for being human. The rawness of being human delights me."

"I suppose we'll never know what really happened in that room, though he did tell police, "I did it because I'm a dirty dog." This is not a very convincing alibi. He may as well have said, "I got 99 problems, but a bitch ain't one."

"Heaven help the roses if the bombs begin to fall"

"Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the pages of the history of the great. Her entire life has served as evidence that no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality."

"Living a life fully engaged and full of whimsy and the kind of things that love does is something most people plan to do, but along the way they just kind of forget. Their dreams become one of those "we'll go there next time" deferrals. The sad thing is, for many there is no "next time" because passing on the chance to cross over is an overall attitude toward life rather than a single decision."

"The walls are the publishers of the poor."

"After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?"

"I asked her if I was black or white. She replied "You are a human being. Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!"