Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
He who laughs, lasts!
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
I'd learned my lesson.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
Never eat more than you can lift.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Vanessa didn't like it, but I figured a cop wasn't going to stop for a kid waving his hat in the street, not that day. They just might stop if they saw Darryl bleeding there, though. I argued briefly with her and Darryl settled it by lurching to his feet and dragging himself down toward Market Street.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
People fail forward to success.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.
There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
I'd learned my lesson.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
People were still cramming down the stairs, and more were squeezing past the turnstiles and down the escalators onto the platforms, but it was clear to me that this wasn't going to have a happy ending.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
Is there life before death?
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
We are what we repeatedly do.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
A poem is no place for an idea.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Walking is man's best medicine.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.
Sitting in the back of that Hummer, my head in a hood, my hands lashed behind my back, lurching back and forth while the bruises swelled up on my head, terrorism suddenly felt a lot riskier.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
Looks are part of business. A businessman should never stand out more than his customers. His mannerisms, his clothes, everything about him... Moderation is the key.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.
See things as they are and write about them. Don?t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
Walking is man's best medicine.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
I didn't even breathe.
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
A smiling face is half the meal.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
My head rang like a gong.
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
All movements go too far.
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
Love truth, and pardon error.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
Life is consciousness.
Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
I stand in awe of my body.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
A smiling face is half the meal.
People fail forward to success.
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
Love truth, and pardon error.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
The car skidded to a stop just in front of me, and I jumped back and lost my balance and ended up on the road.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!'
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
Vanessa didn't like it, but I figured a cop wasn't going to stop for a kid waving his hat in the street, not that day. They just might stop if they saw Darryl bleeding there, though. I argued briefly with her and Darryl settled it by lurching to his feet and dragging himself down toward Market Street.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!'
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
Vigorous writing is concise.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.
Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
Optimism and hope are our best friends. Let?s reach out and Laugh together at our confounding traits and still, let?s keep in mind that our sympt oms and traits are very real with consequences, never to be underestimated or discounted.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
A smiling face is half the meal.
I was as scared as I'd ever been. There was screaming everywhere now, and more bodies on the floor, and the press from behind was as relentless as a bulldozer. It was all I could do to keep on my feet.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
Who were these clowns?
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
A smiling face is half the meal.
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
I strained around against the crowd and saw Van looking with disgust at an older guy in a nice suit who was kind of smirking at her. She was digging in her purse and I knew what she was digging for.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
I am not young enough to know everything.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
No.
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Life is consciousness.
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
She screamed as she went down, and I saw her thrashing to get up, but she couldn't, the crowd's pressure was too strong.