Inspiring Quotes - Page 95

To a significant degree, we are an overfed and undernourished nation digging an early grave with our teeth, and lacking the energy that could be ours because we overindulge in junk foods.

The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.

Failure means nothing now, only that it taught me life.

The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

You look at a guy like Lance Armstrong, and you have to be inspired. I sat next to Kirk Douglas the other day, and he's inspiring for fighting through his stroke

By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.

As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big.

We have a need for enchantment that is as deep and devoted as our need for food and water.

The message we give our bodies - one of irritation or acceptance - is the message to which our bodies will answer.

Whether or not your values are operational is crucially determined by whether or not there are consequences for noncompliance.

It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect to educate their hearts.

Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.

An artist is only an artist on condition that he neglects no aspect of his dual nature. This dualism is the power of being oneself and someone else at one and the same time.

Mothers send strips to daughters to make a point. Daughters smack strips down on the breakfast table to make a point. My own mom sometimes cuts a strip out and sends it to me to make sure I understand her.

Mama, you taught me to do the right things / So now you have to let your baby fly / You've given me everything that I will need / To make it through this crazy thing called life

The angels are a strange genus: they are precisely what they are and cannot be anything else. They are in themselves soulless beings who represent nothing but the thoughts and intuitions of their Lord.

The key to life is your attitude. Whether you're single or married or have kids or don't have kids, it's how you look at your life, what you make of it. It's about making the best of your life wherever you are in life.

The harder we played, the behinder we got.

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.

People who say they don't see the acceleration of innovation is a wilful blindness. We are innovation at a wonderful speed for the basic things we think everyone should get.

A true diva is graceful, and talented, and strong, and fearless and brave and someone with humility.

I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.

A benefactor is a representative of God.

And if we walk away now, if we simply retreat into our respective corners, we will never be able to come together and solve challenges like health care, or education, or the need to find good jobs for every American.