Quotes to inspire and reflect

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

Reason is the substance of the universe. The design of the world is absolutely rational.

It matters if you just don't give up.

The trees reflected in the river -- they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.

My goal is simple. It is the complete understanding of the Universe.

God not only plays dice; he throws them in the corner where you can't see them.

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

The fundamental error of their matrimonial union that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.

Columbus dreamed of an unknown shore at the rim of a far flung sky.

It matters not what goal you seek Its secret here reposes You've got to dig from week to week To get Results or Roses.

The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day.

In the life of children there are two very clear-cut phases, before and after puberty.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this that we may think what we like and say what we think.

You've got to take the bitter with the sour.

I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years.

Let's have some new clichés.

Spare no expense to save money on this one.

If I want your opinion, I'll give it to you.

Spare no expense to make everything as economical as possible.

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it...

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.

Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

We only part to meet again.

The world is the sum-total of our vital possibilities.

Life is a series of collisions with the future it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.

Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and our bounds.

In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings.

All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I ca Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi #15587 I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary the evil it does is permanent.

Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped by the grain.

Faith... Must be enforced by reason...When faith becomes blind it dies.

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

Many could forgo heavy meals, a full wardrobe, a fine house, et cetera it is the ego they cannot forgot.

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.

We heed no instincts but our own.

No path of flowers leads to glory.

It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.