Quotes to inspire and reflect

It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination...

There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.

Fanaticism is just one step away from barbarism.

A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither.

Virtue is praised but hated. People run away from it, for it is ice-cold and in this world you must keep your feet warm.

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge . . . observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation.

Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact.

What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step toward truth.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth... is potentially to have everything...

If I can stop one heart from breaking, if I can ease one pain, then my life will not have been in vain.

Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.

Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.

I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.

The easiest thing of all is to deceive one's self for what a man wishes he generally believes to be true.

Faith--is the Peerless Bridge Supporting what we see Unto the Scene that We do not.

Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.

More men have become great through practice than by nature.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies for solitude is essential to man.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.

When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.

You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.

Now I shall return to my village and there will remain at the disposition of the nation.

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. ...

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.

My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.

You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.

The national task that had been incumbent upon me for 18 years is hereby confirmed.

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country of the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.

I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro.

I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.

It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe Europe will be united by the Chinese.

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness of a road leading towards the unknown.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.

As A general rule, people marry most happily with their own kind.

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular.

Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Pride, envy, avarice -- these are the sparks have set on fire the souls of man.

Consider that this day ne'er dawns again.

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.

Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.