Quotes to inspire and reflect

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. Thomas H.

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree.

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.

One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one allows himself to be tamed.

You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Common sense is as rare as genius.

What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves? Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.

The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.

Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words.

So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.

The church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.

The envier praises me unknowingly.

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

Never be indifferent to injustice. Esnesto "Che

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. Robert Frost Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

When words leave off, music begins.

Laughter is the first evidence of freedom.

Laughing deeply is living deeply.

All we have of freedom -- all we use or know --
This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

There is nothing glorious in dying, anyone can do it.

Faith is, above all, openess; an act of trust in the unknown.

Freedom hath a thousand charms to show,
That slaves however contented never know.

There is no greater joy than of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

If every age has its own characteristic doctrine, there are a thousand signs which point to Fascism as the characteristic doctrine of our time.

I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them though life against the shafts of impartial evidence.

I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.

Impossible is nothing.

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful.

Until divinity decides to reveal the future to human kind, the sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.

There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.

It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it. Albert Einstein, Letter, 24 March 1954.

Statesmen may plan and speculate for liberty but it is religion and morality alone that can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand.

In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.

No country can be described as free- but each has different degrees of bondage.

Love is merely madness.

No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid, but sainthood is a thing that human beings must avoid.

When kings the sword of justice first lay down;
They art no kings, though they posess the crown;
Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things,
The good of subjects is the end of kings.

Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Statistics are like a drunk with a lampost: used more for support than illumination.