Famous Quotes

"If one makes a mistake, then an apology is usually sufficient to get things back on an even keel. However-and this is a big ‘however’- most people do not ever know why their apology did not seem to have any effect. It is simply that they did not make a mistake; they made a choice…and never understood the difference between the two."

"What's unnatural is homophobia. Homo sapiens is the only species in all of nature that responds with hate to homosexuality."

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step."

"A sail boat that sails backwards can never see the sun rise."

"Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy."

"Survivors can't always choose their methods."

"you cannot find happiness, outside the plan of happiness!"

"Live your life, no matter what that life is."

"Don't let the tall weeds cast a shadow on the beautiful flowers in your garden."

"I would rather have 30 minutes of "wonderful" than a lifetime of nothing special."

"The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts."

"Fear is how you lose your life...a little bit at a time...What we give to fear, we take away from...faith."

"Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power."

"On Wednesday, when the sky is blue,and I have nothing else to do,I sometimes wonder if it's true That who is what and what is who." - Winnie-the-Pooh"

"But as the years went on, I realised that what I really want to be, all told, is a human. Just a productive, honest, courteously treated human."

"To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow."

"Freedom is not having everything we crave, it's being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it."

"I will take the Ring", he said, "though I do not know the way."

"Making others happy, through kindness of speech and sincerity of right advice, is a sign of true greatness. To hurt another soul by sarcastic words, looks, or suggestions, is despicable."

"Tomorrow is a new day"

"Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week’s end of the world and sometimes you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life."

"It’s funny how one summer can change everything. It must be something about the heat and the smell of chlorine, fresh-cut grass and honeysuckle, asphalt sizzling after late-day thunderstorms, the steam rising while everything drips around it. Something about long, lazy days and whirring air conditioners and bright plastic flip-flops from the drugstore thwacking down the street. Something about fall being so close, another year, another Christmas, another beginning. So much in one summer, stirring up like the storms that crest at the end of each day, blowing out all the heat and dirt to leave everything gasping and cool. Everyone can reach back to one summer and lay a finger to it, finding the exact point when everything changed. That summer was mine."