Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
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 doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Is there life before death?
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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.
I didn't even breathe.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
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!'
God creates men, but they choose each other.
We are what we repeatedly do.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
Well done is better than well said.
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 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.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
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.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
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.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
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.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
My friends are my estate.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
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.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
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.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
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.
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.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
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 few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
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.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
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.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
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.'
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
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.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
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.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
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?
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
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.
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.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
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.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
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.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
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.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
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.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.
Art is science made clear.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
Life is consciousness.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
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.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
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.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
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.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
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.
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.'
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.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
My head rang like a gong.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
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 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.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
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.
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
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.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
Maybe they were terrorists!
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.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
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?
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
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.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
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.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
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.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
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."
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
People fail forward to success.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
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.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.
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.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
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.
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.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
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.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
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.
My home is not a place, it is people.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
I am not young enough to know everything.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of 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.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
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.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
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.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
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.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
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?
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
They can conquer who believe they can.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
History is more or less bunk.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
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.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
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.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
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.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
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.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
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.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
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.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
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.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
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.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
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.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
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.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
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.
The average person thinks he isn't.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
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.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
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.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
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.
Who were these clowns?
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
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.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
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?
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Is there life before death?
Keep cool and you command everybody.
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.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
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.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
Well done is better than well said.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
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?
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
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.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
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.
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.
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
I stand in awe of my body.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
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.
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.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
I use an optimistic, positive approach to deal with my symptoms and it came the hard way, before I learned to laugh with myself a little.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
Life is consciousness.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
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.
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!'
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
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 habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
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.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
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.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
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.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
A poem is no place for an idea.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
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.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
I didn't even breathe.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
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.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
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.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
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.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
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?
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
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.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
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.
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
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?
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
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.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
All movements go too far.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
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.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
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.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
I stand in awe of my body.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
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.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
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.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
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.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
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.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
Walking is man's best medicine.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
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.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
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.
Love truth, and pardon error.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
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.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
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.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
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.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
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.
A poem is no place for an idea.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
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.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
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.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
I stand in awe of my body.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
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.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
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.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
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.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
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 lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
Someone went upside my head again.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
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.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
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.
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.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
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.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
The average person thinks he isn't.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
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.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
I nearly fell again, but new hands grabbed me from in front and dragged me down a steel floor and then forced me to my knees and locked my hands to something behind me.
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.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
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.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
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.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
People fail forward to success.
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.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
People fail forward to success.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
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.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
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.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
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.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
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.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
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 trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
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 you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
Memory feeds imagination.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
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.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Love truth, and pardon error.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
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.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
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.
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.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
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!
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
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.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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.
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.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
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.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
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.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
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.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
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!
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.