Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
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.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
No.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
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.
If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
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.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
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."
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
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.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
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 mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
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.
We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
'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.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
The average person thinks he isn't.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
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.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
She screamed as she went down, and I saw her thrashing to get up, but she couldn't, the crowd's pressure was too strong.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
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.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
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.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
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 movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
I didn't even breathe.
Each body has its art...
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
There isn?t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren?t really living without it.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
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 wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
They can conquer who believe they can.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Sitting in the back of that Hummer, my head in a hood, my hands lashed behind my back, lurching back and forth while the bruises swelled up on my head, terrorism suddenly felt a lot riskier.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
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.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
I was as scared as I'd ever been. There was screaming everywhere now, and more bodies on the floor, and the press from behind was as relentless as a bulldozer. It was all I could do to keep on my feet.
Who were these clowns?
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
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 counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
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 all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
My friends are my estate.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
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?
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
I was as scared as I'd ever been. There was screaming everywhere now, and more bodies on the floor, and the press from behind was as relentless as a bulldozer. It was all I could do to keep on my feet.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
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.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
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.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
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.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
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.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
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.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
He who laughs, lasts!
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
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.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
He who laughs, lasts!
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
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.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
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.
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.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
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.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
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.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
No.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Walking is man's best medicine.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
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.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporaly out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
I am not young enough to know everything.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
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.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.
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!
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.
I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
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.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
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.
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.
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
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.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
Is there life before death?
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
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.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
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.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
History is more or less bunk.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
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.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
There isn?t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren?t really living without it.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
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.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
I'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.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
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!
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
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 most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
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.
Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
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.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
It's takin' whatever comes your way, the good AND the bad, that give life flavor. It's all the stuff rolled together that makes life worth livin'.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
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?
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
So little time and so little to do.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
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.
I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
Vigorous writing is concise.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
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.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
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.
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
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.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
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.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
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.
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.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
Art is science made clear.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
We are what we repeatedly do.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
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.
Well done is better than well said.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Someone went upside my head again.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
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.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Each body has its art...
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
Memory feeds imagination.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
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.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.
I 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!'
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
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.
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.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
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.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
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.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
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.
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.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
Life is consciousness.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
Well done is better than well said.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
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 am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
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.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
No.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
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.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
So little time and so little to do.
They weren't wearing insignia.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
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 excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Life is consciousness.
Walking is man's best medicine.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again.
A joke's a very serious thing.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
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.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
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.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
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.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.
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.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
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.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Is there life before death?
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
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.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
A smiling face is half the meal.
I didn't even breathe.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
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.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.
Vigorous writing is concise.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
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.
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.
Love truth, and pardon error.
I looked up and saw a bunch of military-looking guys in coveralls, holding big, bulky rifles and wearing hooded gas masks with tinted face-plates.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
They weren't wearing insignia.
Is there life before death?
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.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
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.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
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.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
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.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.