Daily Quote Archives

“Information’s pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.”

“Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”

“Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.”

“One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.”

“Failure is success if we learn from it.”

“It isn‘t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.”

“Sometimes questions are more important than answers.”

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

“I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.”

“Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.”

“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence; a time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny; and a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.”

“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”

“The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.”

“There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.”

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”

“My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody; and have the courage to accept the love in return.”

“We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.”

“Peace cannot be achieved through violence; it can only be attained through understanding.”

“Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.”

“A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.”

“Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.”

“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.”

“Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.”

“Sometimes questions are more important than answers.”

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”

“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.”