Quotes on Inspiration

Reacting to the world with a smile instead of a curse, a wave instead of the middle finger, will actually help you live longer.

Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.

There are likewise three kinds of dancers: first, those who consider dancing as a sort of gymnastic drill, made up of impersonal and graceful arabesques; second, those who, by concentrating their minds, lead the body into the rhythm of a desired emotion, expressing a remembered feeling or experience. And finally, there are those who convert the body into a luminous fluidity, surrendering it to the inspiration of the soul.

Ideas are like wandering sons. They show up when you least expect them.

For just as some people want a purely spiritual Christ, without flesh and without the cross, they also want their interpersonal relationships provided by sophisticated equipment, by screens and systems which can be turned on and off on command. Meanwhile, the Gospel tells us constantly to run the risk of a face-to-face encounter with others, with their physical presence which challenges us, with their pain and their pleas, with their joy which infects us in our close and continuous interaction.

The question I ask myself like almost every day is: ‘Am I doing the most important thing I could be doing?' Unless I feel like I’m working on the most important problem that I can help with, then I’m not going to feel good about how I’m spending my time. And that’s what this company is.

You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.

Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

Today, the average Korean works a thousand hours more a year than the average German. A thousand. ... That is the end of the Great Divergence.

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.

The fact that 98 percent of women in [the U.S.] who are sexually experienced say they use birth control doesn't make sex any less sacred. It just means that they're getting to make choices about their lives.

You can call happy those who saw Him... But, come to the altar and you will see Him, you will touch Him, you will give to Him holy kisses, you will wash Him with your tears, you will carry Him within you like Mary Most Holy.

You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

Christianity, unlike any other religion in the world, begins with catastrophe and defeat. Sunshine religions and psychological inspirations collapse in calamity and wither in adversity. But the Life of the Founder of Christianity, having begun with the Cross, ends with the empty tomb and victory.

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract.

I've got the brain of a four year old. I'll bet he was glad to be rid of it.