The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
People fail forward to success.
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.
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.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
The car skidded to a stop just in front of me, and I jumped back and lost my balance and ended up on the road.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
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?
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
I am not young enough to know everything.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.
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.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
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.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
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.
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.
Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
Looks are part of business. A businessman should never stand out more than his customers. His mannerisms, his clothes, everything about him... Moderation is the key.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
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.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
A smiling face is half the meal.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
He who laughs, lasts!
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
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.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
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.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and it deteriorated. And then, just before Thanksgiving 1995, I found out I was going to make ten million dollars for Dumb & Dumber. I put that check in the casket with my father because it was our dream together.
I use an optimistic, positive approach to deal with my symptoms and it came the hard way, before I learned to laugh with myself a little.
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.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
Love truth, and pardon error.
I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
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.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
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.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
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.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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.'
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
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.
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
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.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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!
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
Each body has its art...
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
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.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
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.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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?
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
'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.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
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.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
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.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Art is science made clear.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life.
The average person thinks he isn't.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
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 trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
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.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
'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 use an optimistic, positive approach to deal with my symptoms and it came the hard way, before I learned to laugh with myself a little.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
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.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
Walking is man's best medicine.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
I am not young enough to know everything.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
Is there life before death?
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.
I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and it deteriorated. And then, just before Thanksgiving 1995, I found out I was going to make ten million dollars for Dumb & Dumber. I put that check in the casket with my father because it was our dream together.
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.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
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.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
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.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
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.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
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.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
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