Popular Quotes Through Time

Don't you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can't be exactly who you are.

I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone's got their own definition. Mine, I suppose, is to know myself.

You can't fly unless you let yourself fall.

A lot of people can't stand touring, but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it.

Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I just sorta do 'em all together, I guess.

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.

People are going to judge you anyway, so you might as well do what you want.

We're more popular than Jesus now.... Jesus was alright but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.

In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

"If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies: Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank people will try to cheat you: Be honest anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight: Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous of you: Be happy anyway. The good you do today, will often be forgotten by tomorrow: Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough: Give your best anyway."

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun

The Normandy invasion was based on a deep-seated faith in the power of the Air Force in overwhelming numbers to intervene in the land battle ... making it possible for a small force of land troops to invade a continent.

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.

If heartaches was commercials, we'd all be on TV.