I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
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.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
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.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
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.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
They weren't wearing insignia.
I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.
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.
It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.
I 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.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
Memory feeds imagination.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
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.
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
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.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
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.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
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.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
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've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
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!
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
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.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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.'
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
My home is not a place, it is people.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
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.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
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.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
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.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
I've gone into hundreds of fortune-teller's parlors, and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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.
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.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
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.
I ended up stepping on her stomach as the crowd pushed me past her, but by then I don't think she was feeling anything.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
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.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
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.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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!
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
So little time and so little to do.
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 more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
Facts are the enemy of truth.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
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.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
My home is not a place, it is people.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
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.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
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.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
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.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
I've gone into hundreds of fortune-teller's parlors, and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
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.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
People fail forward to success.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
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.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
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.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
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.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
'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 used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
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.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
The best way out is always through.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
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.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
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.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
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.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
No.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
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 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.
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.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
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.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
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.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
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.
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
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.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
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.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
Optimism and hope are our best friends. Let?s reach out and Laugh together at our confounding traits and still, let?s keep in mind that our sympt oms and traits are very real with consequences, never to be underestimated or discounted.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
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.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
I didn't even breathe.
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.
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 few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
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.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
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.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
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.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
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.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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.
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.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
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.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
To try to be better is to be better.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
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.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
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.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
Who were these clowns?
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
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.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
A smiling face is half the meal.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
My home is not a place, it is people.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Love truth, and pardon error.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don?t seem so bad lately.
Our lives teach us who we are.
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'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
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.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
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.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Someone went upside my head again.
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.
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.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
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.
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
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 ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
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.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
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.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
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.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
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.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
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.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
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.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
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.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
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.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
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.
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.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
To try to be better is to be better.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
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.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
Is there life before death?
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
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 reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
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.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
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.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
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.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
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 toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
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.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
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.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
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.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
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.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
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.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
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.
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.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
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.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
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?
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
We are what we repeatedly do.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
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.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
I ended up stepping on her stomach as the crowd pushed me past her, but by then I don't think she was feeling anything.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
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.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
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.
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.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
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.
I'd learned my lesson.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
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.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
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.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
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.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
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.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
My home is not a place, it is people.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Love truth, and pardon error.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
Art is science made clear.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Love truth, and pardon error.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
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.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
People fail forward to success.
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.
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.
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Memory feeds imagination.
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.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
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.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
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.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
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?
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
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?
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
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.
My head rang like a gong.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
They weren't wearing insignia.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
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.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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 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.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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.
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
You always pass failure on the way to success.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
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 went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
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?
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
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.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
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.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
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.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
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.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
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.
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.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
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.
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.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
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.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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 place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
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 curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
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.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
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.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
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.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
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.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
He who laughs, lasts!
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
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.
My home is not a place, it is people.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
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 are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Life is consciousness.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
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.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
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.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
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.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around 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.
Someone went upside my head again.
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.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
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.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
We are what we repeatedly do.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
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?
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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.
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 undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
Never eat more than you can lift.
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 hands behind me gave me another shove.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
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.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
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.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
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.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
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.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
Never eat more than you can lift.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
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.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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.
Art is science made clear.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
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.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
Maybe they were terrorists!
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
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.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
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.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
History is more or less bunk.
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.
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!
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
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