We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
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.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
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.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
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 was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
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.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
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 function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in 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.
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.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
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.
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.
My home is not a place, it is people.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
I'd learned my lesson.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
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.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
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.
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.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
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.
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.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
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.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
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.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
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.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
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.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
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.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
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.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
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.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
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.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
The car skidded to a stop just in front of me, and I jumped back and lost my balance and ended up on the road.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
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.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
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.
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.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
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.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
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.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
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.
My home is not a place, it is people.
No.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
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.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
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.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
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.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
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.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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.'
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
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.
Is there life before death?
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
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.
Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
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.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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.
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.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
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.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
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.
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.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
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.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
Is there life before death?
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
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.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
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.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
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.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
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.
I stand in awe of my body.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
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.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
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.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
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.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
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.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
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.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
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.
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.
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.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
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.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
Who were these clowns?
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
A joke's a very serious thing.
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.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
People fail forward to success.
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.
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.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
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.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
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 faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
My friends are my estate.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
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.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
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.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
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.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
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."
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
Love truth, and pardon error.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
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.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
He who laughs, lasts!
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
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.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
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 undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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.
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.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
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 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.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
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.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
To try to be better is to be better.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
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.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
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!'
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
Is there life before death?
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
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's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?
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.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
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.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
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.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
Vigorous writing is concise.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
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.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
Art is science made clear.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
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.
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.
A poem is no place for an idea.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
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.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
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.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
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.
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.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
They weren't wearing insignia.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Memory feeds imagination.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
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.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
He who laughs, lasts!
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
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.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
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.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
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.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
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.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
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.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Walking is man's best medicine.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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 home is not a place, it is people.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
See things as they are and write about them. Don?t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
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.
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.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
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.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
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.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
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.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
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.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
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 have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
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.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'
All the world's a cage.
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.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
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.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
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.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
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.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
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.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
Never eat more than you can lift.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
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.
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.
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.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
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.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
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.
My friends are my estate.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
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.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.
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.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Is there life before death?
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
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.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
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.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
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.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
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 man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
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.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
I didn't even breathe.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
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?
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
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.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
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.
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.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
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.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
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.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
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.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
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.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
Is there life before death?
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
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.
No.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
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.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
Someone went upside my head again.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
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.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
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 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.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
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.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
All movements go too far.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
'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.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
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.