Quotes to inspire and reflect

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 envier praises me unknowingly.

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.

Never be indifferent to injustice. Esnesto "Che

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

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.

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

Laughing deeply is living deeply.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

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

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.

Impossible is nothing.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.

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.

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.

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.

To drift is to be in hell; to be in heaven is to steer.

We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory shall swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of nature.

In a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his way all the time and no one is right all the time. Richard M.

You will always find [hatred] strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.

All for ourselves and nothing for other people seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.

Time does not always pass at the same speed. We are the ones who determine that speed.

Few take up the burden of their own victory: most give up their dreams when they become impossible.