Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

Never hesitate to ask a lesser person.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at it destination, full of hope.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

Arm yourselves and be ye men of valour, and be in readiness for the conflict, for it is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation and our altar.

It is better to be violent if there is violence in our hearts than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous or honest.

The critic has to educate the public, the artist has to educate the critic.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

If patience is worth anything it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow, in thought and mind.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

Give your hands to serve and your hearts to love.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Nature does nothing uselessly.

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress and grows brave by reflection.

At one point he decided enough was enough.

What is easy is seldom excellent.

The Divine pervades everything in the Universe. This may not be understood by everyone. Some may not agree that the Divine is Omnipresent. But whether they accept this fact or not the truth is evidence of the presence of God can be found wherever one turns.

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them and then you destroy yourself.

The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.

The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.

I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist but what they mean, it is not memory but judgment.

Do not differentiate on the basis of race, caste, creed or country.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested, on the contrary - he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere but they're just not comedians. In fact some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers.

Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits it is part of my own being.

Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

The more people smoke herb the more Babylon fall.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

Give me my robe, put on my crown, I have Immortal longings in me.

Develop an attitude of gratitude and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

Compassion in which all ethics must take root can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

Be thankful for what you have, you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never ever have enough.

The real fault is to have faults and not to amend them.

The only thing I do is just pray for inspiration for a way of thinking because I don't have any particular goal in sight.

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company comforts and inspires.

It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.

It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.

Of all religions the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared, for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

Follow the Master, face the devil, fight to the end, finish the game.

Lord, save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

Most folks want to believe in Armstrong in the credibility of his courage in the veracity of his inspiration in the purity of his Tour de France titles. Most want to believe but does everyone dare? We've been suckers for hearts-and-flowers icons before.

While I take inspiration from the past like most Americans I live for the future.

He who has really set his mind on virtue will do no evil.

What an antithetical mind! -- tenderness roughness -- delicacy coarseness -- sentiment sensuality -- soaring and groveling dirt and deity -- all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime, for one swallow does not a summer make.

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you fill her above the brim with love of herself, all that runs over will be yours.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

We learned about gratitude and humility - that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us, to the janitors who kept our school clean... and we were taught to value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect.

Strive not to be a success but rather to be of value.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me.

We can never learn too much of His will towards us too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.

The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

Reverence, humility, contentment, gratitude and hearing the good Dhamma, this is the best good luck

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define, Of inspiration one percent of perspiration ninety nine.

He who requires much from himself and little from others will keep himself from being the object of resentment.

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

In life you need either inspiration or desperation.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.

Every day the people I meet inspire me... every day they make me proud... every day they remind me how blessed we are to live in the greatest nation on earth.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

When we see persons of worth we should think of equaling them, when we see persons of a contrary character we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

WOMEN preserve the culture of this country with greater tenacity and faith. They keep men on the moral path and inspire them to follow spiritual discipline. Their hearts are tender and full of compassion for the hungry and the distressed. That is why in this land women are adored and revered.

Politics is for the present but an equation is for eternity.

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.

The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.

I remember a specific moment watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line and her saying to me 'you are going to have to learn to do this', and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.

What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.

Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.

It's been a joy to be a part of other people's journey to be able to inspire and be a part of new singers coming up in this business.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end, because once you get there you can move mountains.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

Time has been transformed and we have changed, it has advanced and set us in motion, it has unveiled its face inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.

We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

Two friends two bodies with one soul inspired.

We must indeed all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.

The world itself is a great teacher a constant guide and inspiration. That is the reason why man is surrounded and sustained by the world.

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the non-performance of base ones.

Great Men & Fools do often me Inspire But the Greater Fool the Greater Liar.

I have never accepted what many people have kindly said-namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless and as it proved unconquerable. It fell to me to express it.

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still, small voice of conscience.

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?

Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.

When I'm inspired I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next.

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

Art has the power to transform to illuminate to educate inspire and motivate.

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared and with it none despised.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

She was determined as she felt it to be her duty to try to overcome all that was excessive.

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

What you do not want done to yourself do not do to others.

Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.

What influenced me was Tori Amos who was unapologetic about expressing anger through music and Sinead O'Connor. Those two in particular were really moving for me and very inspiring before I wrote 'Jagged Little Pill.'

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us not for God.

The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.

I can inspire people on how to use money how to get economically powerful.

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

Fishes live in the sea as men do a-land, the great ones eat up the little ones.

I believe with all my heart that America remains 'the great idea' that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here to vote here and to live here.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

One must know not just how to accept a gift, but with what grace to share it.

Farewell fair cruelty.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

Ultimately America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

This President takes his inspiration from the capitals of Europe, we look to the cities and small towns of America. This President puts his faith in government. We put our faith in the American people.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

The moral virtues then are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature indeed prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

We are going from the bottom to the top all together so it's important for us to enjoy the journey and that is what we are doing right now. We have four days off coming up here and I would have been sick as a dog if we would have lost this game. I just wanted to step up and inspire us to play well and it turned into something special.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn't eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Seuss inspired me to try cauliflower!

The time at our disposal each day is elastic, the passions we feel dilate it those that inspire us shrink it and habit fills it.

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

No one can lie, no one can hide anything when he looks directly into someone's eyes.

Inspiration exists but it has to find us working.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside dreams, who looks inside awakes.

Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Before I do anything I think well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.

It is a fact often observed that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion who cannot write well under other circumstances.

But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing then it started to get fun again.

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is goals that do not inspire them.

Say not 'I have found the truth ' but rather 'I have found a truth.'

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them, for those experiences have left an indelible impression and we are ever and anon reminded of them.

It is easy to fly into a passion - anybody can do that - but to be angry with the right person to the right extent, and at the right time, with the right object, and in the right way - that is not easy and it is not everyone who can do it.

Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

To enjoy the things we ought, and to hate the things we ought, has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.

But when I hear a great song I can't help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under.

My doctrine is not a doctrine but just a vision. I have not given you any set rules, I have not given you a system.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

The person who is wedded to Truth and Love would need nothing more for peace and happiness. When Creation is witnessed through these values it becomes holy scripture an inspiring lesson and guide.

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

I saw few die of hunger, of eating a hundred thousand.

The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.

The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner but that they reflect a certain underlying order which may or may not be divinely inspired.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.

The superior man is firm in the right way and not merely firm.

It's lack that gives us inspiration. It's not fullness.

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

A principle is the expression of perfection and as imperfect beings like us cannot practice perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

Compassion brings us to a stop and for a moment we rise above ourselves.

We're taught to be ashamed of confusion anger fear and sadness and to me they're of equal value to happiness excitement and inspiration.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

All works are God's. He inspires He helps He executes He enjoys He is pleased He reaps and He sowed.

Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted.

Sacred and inspired divinity the sabaoth and port of all men's labours and peregrinations.

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

We should be too big to take offense, and too noble to give it.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

To do a great right, do a little wrong.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry but a kind of instinct or inspiration such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Many foxes grow gray, but few grow good.

Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief, to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Those whose minds are well fixed upon the elements of enlightenment, who without hankering after anything glory in renunciation, whose biases are extinguished, who are full of light -  they indeed have attained the bliss of nirvana in this very world.

I am a walking piece of art every day with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves even in those books which they write in contempt of glory inscribe their names.

I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Spend a few minutes every morning and evening in the Silence of your own shrine or home, spend them with the highest of all the Powers that you know of. Be in His elevating and Inspiring company, worship Him mentally, offer unto Him all the work you do, you will come out of the silence nobler and more heroic than when you went in.