Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
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.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
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.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
I stand in awe of my body.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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 next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
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.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
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.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
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.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
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.
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.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
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.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
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.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
All movements go too far.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
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.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Optimism and hope are our best friends. Let?s reach out and Laugh together at our confounding traits and still, let?s keep in mind that our sympt oms and traits are very real with consequences, never to be underestimated or discounted.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
They can conquer who believe they can.
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.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
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