Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
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.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
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.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
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.
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.
Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
See things as they are and write about them. Don?t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
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.
Is there life before death?
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
So little time and so little to do.
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.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
All the world's a cage.
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.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Art is science made clear.
Vanessa didn't like it, but I figured a cop wasn't going to stop for a kid waving his hat in the street, not that day. They just might stop if they saw Darryl bleeding there, though. I argued briefly with her and Darryl settled it by lurching to his feet and dragging himself down toward Market Street.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.'
They can conquer who believe they can.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
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.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
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.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
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.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
You always pass failure on the way 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.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
My home is not a place, it is people.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
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.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
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?
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
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 nearly fell again, but new hands grabbed me from in front and dragged me down a steel floor and then forced me to my knees and locked my hands to something behind me.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
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.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
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.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
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?
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
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.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
Memory feeds imagination.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
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.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
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.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to 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.
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.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
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 have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
My home is not a place, it is people.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporaly out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
It's takin' whatever comes your way, the good AND the bad, that give life flavor. It's all the stuff rolled together that makes life worth livin'.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
Maybe they were terrorists!
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
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.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
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.
People fail forward to success.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
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.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
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.
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.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
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.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
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.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
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.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
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.
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.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'
It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
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.
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.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
Is there life before death?
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
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.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
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.
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.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
See things as they are and write about them. Don?t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
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.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
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.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
All movements go too far.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
People fail forward to success.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.
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.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
Vanessa didn't like it, but I figured a cop wasn't going to stop for a kid waving his hat in the street, not that day. They just might stop if they saw Darryl bleeding there, though. I argued briefly with her and Darryl settled it by lurching to his feet and dragging himself down toward Market Street.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
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.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
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.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
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 nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
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.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
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.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
People fail forward to success.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
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?
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
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.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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.
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.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
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 used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
Someone went upside my head again.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
My head rang like a gong.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
My home is not a place, it is people.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
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.
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.
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.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
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.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
They can conquer who believe they can.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
Sitting in the back of that Hummer, my head in a hood, my hands lashed behind my back, lurching back and forth while the bruises swelled up on my head, terrorism suddenly felt a lot riskier.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
Our lives teach us who we are.
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
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?
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
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.
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
It's takin' whatever comes your way, the good AND the bad, that give life flavor. It's all the stuff rolled together that makes life worth livin'.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
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.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
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.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
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."
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Vanessa didn't like it, but I figured a cop wasn't going to stop for a kid waving his hat in the street, not that day. They just might stop if they saw Darryl bleeding there, though. I argued briefly with her and Darryl settled it by lurching to his feet and dragging himself down toward Market Street.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
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.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
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 gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
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.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
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.
The average person thinks he isn't.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
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.
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
To try to be better is to be better.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
The average person thinks he isn't.
I nearly fell again, but new hands grabbed me from in front and dragged me down a steel floor and then forced me to my knees and locked my hands to something behind me.
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.
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.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
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.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
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?
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
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.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
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.
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
Never eat more than you can lift.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!'
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
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.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
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.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
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.
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.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
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.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
I'd learned my lesson.
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
The best way out is always through.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
Who were these clowns?
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
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.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
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.
I stand in awe of my body.
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
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.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
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!
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
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.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
So little time and so little to do.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
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.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
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.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
I'd learned my lesson.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
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.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
To try to be better is to be better.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
My home is not a place, it is people.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
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.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.