Michael Gerald > Michael Gerald's Quotes

“Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.”
― Pope John Paul II

“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.”
― Anatole France

“When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.”
― William Arthur Ward

“Life sometimes separates people so that they may realize how much they mean to each other.”
― Paulo Coelho

“We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.”
― Mother Teresa

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.”
― Bill Gates

“How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.”
― Wilhelm Von Humboldt

“Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.”
― Sam Ewing

“Sometimes, the people who make a difference are not the ones with the credentials, but the ones with the concern.”
― Max Lucado

“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”
― Mark Twain

“All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told:
Many a man his life hath sold
But my outside to behold:
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.”
― Washington Irving

“There is no place like home.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey

“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
― E. B. White

“Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.”
― Théophile Gautier

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
― C.S. Lewis