Quotes to inspire and reflect

Love of God is not always the same as love of good.

To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.

A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or or not.

Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.

Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.

All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.

Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.

If you are truly serious about preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract -- teach him to deduct.

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

The controversial overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.

He who has begun has half done.

Mix a little foolishness with your prudence It's good to be silly at the right moment.

Drop the question what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that fate allows you.

With silence favor me.

Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom.

Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.

Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.

You have played enough you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is time for you to depart.

Whatever your advice, make it brief.

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man.

To save a man's life against his will is the same as killing him.

Seize today, and put as little trust as you can in tomorrow.

Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces.

I strive to be brief, and become obscure.

Patience makes lighter what sorrow may not heal.

He has the deed half-done who has made a beginning.

Such truth as opposed no man's profit nor pleasure is to all men welcome.

Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.Lat., Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow.

Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself called religion.

The privilege of absurdity to which no living creature is subject, but man only.

Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools.

Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.

I celebrate myself, and what I assume you shall assume, for every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

Answer that you are here---that life exists and identity that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.

Judging from the main portion of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.

No longer forward nor behind I look in hope or fear but, grateful, take the good I find the best of now and here.

N.B. This quote refers to the British disarmament of the Indian Army. Gandhi never advocated the individual right to bear arms.

The saddest thing of word or pen, to know the things that might have been.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream.

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.