John Irving Quote

Life will be peaceful if you can fill your heart with an abundance of love.

Just because your heart is beating, doesn't mean you're alive.

If your success is not amazing to your critics, it disturbs, infuriates, and frustrates them, and if they're not careful; may go hang themselves and go to hell.

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

The hurt that troubled children create is never greater than the hurt they feel.

My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days...

Every challenge, every adversity, contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.

It's great that people are basically spending their two weeks of vacation to come out and be with us in some weird part of the world. And I think we owe it to them to take 'em to some cool places.

There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin.