Famous Quotes

"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."

"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."

"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."

"Shine your light and make a positive impact on the world"

"One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important."

"To learn something new, you need to try new things and not be afraid to be wrong."

"Great leaders can see the greatness in others when they can’t see it themselves and lead them to their highest potential they don’t even know."

"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!"

"The one who falls and gets up is stronger than the one who never tried. Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying."

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

"You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened."

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."

"Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life. Work's important, family's important, but without excitement, you have nothing. You're cheating yourself if you refuse to enjoy what's coming."

"There was quite a lot of competitiveness about it, with everybody wanting to beat not only cancer itself, but also the other people in the room. Like, I realize that this is irrational, but when they tell you that you have, say, a 20 percent chance of living five years, the math kicks in and you figure that’s one in five . . . so you look around and think, as any healthy person would: I gotta outlast four of these bastards."