It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
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.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
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.
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.
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.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Walking is man's best medicine.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
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.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
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.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
I didn't even breathe.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
To try to be better is to be better.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty.
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
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.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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.
You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
I stand in awe of my body.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
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 despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
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.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
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.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
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.
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.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
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 advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
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.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
A smiling face is half the meal.
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.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
People fail forward to success.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
Love truth, and pardon error.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
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.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
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?
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
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."
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?
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
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.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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.
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.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
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.
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.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
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 have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
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.
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.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
They can conquer who believe they can.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
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.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
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.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Vigorous writing is concise.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
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?
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
I've gone into hundreds of fortune-teller's parlors, and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.'
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
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.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
There isn?t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren?t really living without it.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
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.
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.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.
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.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
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!
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
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.
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
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.
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.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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.
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
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 human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
Who were these clowns?
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.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
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.
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.
I've gone into hundreds of fortune-teller's parlors, and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
History is more or less bunk.
Life is consciousness.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
A poem is no place for an idea.
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
I ended up stepping on her stomach as the crowd pushed me past her, but by then I don't think she was feeling anything.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
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.
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
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.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
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.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.
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.
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.
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.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
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.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
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.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.
My friends are my estate.
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.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
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.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
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.
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.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
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.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
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.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
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.
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.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Someone went upside my head again.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
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.
I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Never eat more than you can lift.
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 happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
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.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
Someone went upside my head again.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
A smiling face is half the meal.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
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.
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don?t seem so bad lately.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and it deteriorated. And then, just before Thanksgiving 1995, I found out I was going to make ten million dollars for Dumb & Dumber. I put that check in the casket with my father because it was our dream together.
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.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
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.
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.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
The average person thinks he isn't.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Walking is man's best medicine.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
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.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
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.
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.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
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 release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
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.
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.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
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?
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
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.
Vigorous writing is concise.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
My home is not a place, it is people.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
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.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
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.
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.
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 trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
A poem is no place for an idea.
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.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
He who laughs, lasts!
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
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.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
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 feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
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.'
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.
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!'
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.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
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 freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
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.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Maybe they were terrorists!
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.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
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.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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.
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
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.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
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!
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.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
My home is not a place, it is people.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
Life is consciousness.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
I stand in awe of my body.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
We are what we repeatedly do.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
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.
They weren't wearing insignia.
There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
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.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
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.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
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.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
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.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
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.
Never eat more than you can lift.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
The best way out is always through.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
My home is not a place, it is people.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
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.
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.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
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.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.