Daily Quote Archives

“When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find peace of mind is waiting there.”

“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”

“Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose — a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.”

“The family is one of nature's masterpieces.”

“Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.”

“I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results. ”

“Only a life lived for others is worth living.”

“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear, which is inherent in a human condition.”

“True love doesn't come to you; it has to be inside you.”

“I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up.”

“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”

“No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.”

“The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”

“To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.”

“It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.”

“There is a theory which states that if ever for any reason anyone discovers what exactly the universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another that states that this has already happened.”

“Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die today.”

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”

“I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving he can outwit nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.”

“Opportunities fly by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone.”

“The less routine the more life.”

“The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.”

“It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.”

“Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.”

“Be careful what you pretend to be, because you are also what you pretend to be.”

“Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.”

“To save yourself by means of that which has ruined you is the masterpiece of great men.”

“We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist.”

“Failure is success if we learn from it.”