Quotes to inspire and reflect

I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.

And Charlie, don't forget about what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he ever wanted.

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Life is a game in which the rules are constantly changing nothing spoils a game more than those who take it seriously.

Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.

Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette.

We will have no truce or parlay with you Hitler, or the grisly gang who work your wicked will.

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished.

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts.

When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.

It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice. I consider the real vice is making losses.

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come.

In my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you also understand the most amusing.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.

Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool He who knows he is confused is not in the worst confusion.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals.

Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. Continue easy and you are right.

We live in a rainbow of Chaos.

Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.

The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.

Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president.

Nancy Reagan fell down and broke her hair.

My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Only lie about the future.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.

There's a moment coming. It's not here yet. It's still on the way. It's in the future. It hasn't arrived. Here it comes.

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.

Young men think old men are fools but old men know young men are fools.

It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it.

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

What each must seek in his own life never was on land or sea.

Eternity has nothing to do with the hereafter... This is it... If you don't get it here, you won't get it anywhere.

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America.

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.

I'll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It cost a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar. It's addictive.

I was no petty thief, I wanted the world or nothing.