Quotes on Inspirational

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

I always think about what I missed, and I think that was my driving force - never be satisfied with what I've done.

Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.

It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.

It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.

Everything begins with a decision. Then, we have to manage that decision for the rest of your life.

Everybody says they want to be free. Take the train off the tracks and it’s free-but it can’t go anywhere.

Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head?

Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want, and do.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Well done is better than well said.

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: 'Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?' We must always consider the person.

Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.