The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Maybe they were terrorists!
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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 more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
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.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
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.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
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.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
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.
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.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
We are what we repeatedly do.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
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.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
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.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
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.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
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.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
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 is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
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.
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?
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.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
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.
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
I didn't even breathe.
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.
I stand in awe of my body.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
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.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
People fail forward to success.
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.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
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.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
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.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
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.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
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.'
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
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.'
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
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.
I didn't even breathe.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
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 daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
A joke's a very serious thing.
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?
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.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
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 come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
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.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
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