All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
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.
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.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
Each body has its art...
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
All movements go too far.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
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.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
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.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
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.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
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.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
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 only cure retail but you can prevent .
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
Memory feeds imagination.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
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.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
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.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
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.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
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.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
'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.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
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.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
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.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
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?
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
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 had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
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.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
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?
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
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If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
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.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
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.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
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.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
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.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
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.
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.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
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.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
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.
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.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
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.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.
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.
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.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
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?
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
They weren't wearing insignia.
Our lives teach us who we are.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
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 great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
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.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
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.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
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.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
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?
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
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.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
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.
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.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
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.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
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.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
'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.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
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.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
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.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
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.
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.
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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.
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.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.
The 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.
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.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
I am not young enough to know everything.
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.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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.
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.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
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.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
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.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
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 moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
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.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
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.
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.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
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.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
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.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
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.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
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.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
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.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
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.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Each body has its art...
Life is consciousness.
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.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
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.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
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 watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
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.
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 despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
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.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
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.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
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.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
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.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
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?
'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.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
Love truth, and pardon error.
A poem is no place for an idea.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
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 cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
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.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
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.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
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.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
All the world's a cage.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
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?
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
Memory feeds imagination.
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.
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.
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."
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
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 aim; you must hit.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
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.
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
We are what we repeatedly do.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
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.'
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
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.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
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.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
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 art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
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.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
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 precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
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.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
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.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
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.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
Love truth, and pardon error.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.
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.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
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.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
A smiling face is half the meal.
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.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
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.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
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.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
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.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
So little time and so little to do.
No.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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 only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
Someone went upside my head again.
Walking is man's best medicine.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
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.'
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
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.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
A smiling face is half the meal.
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.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
To try to be better is to be better.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
I am not young enough to know everything.
Memory feeds imagination.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
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 secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
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.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
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.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
He who laughs, lasts!
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
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.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
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.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
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.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
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.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
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.
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.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
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.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
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.
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.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
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.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
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.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
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.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
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.
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.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
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.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
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.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
He who laughs, lasts!
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
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.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
So little time and so little to do.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
My home is not a place, it is people.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
We are what we repeatedly do.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
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 billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
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.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
I didn't even breathe.
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.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
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.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
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 am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
My home is not a place, it is people.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
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.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
A smiling face is half the meal.
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.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
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 not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
I am not young enough to know everything.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
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.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
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.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
My home is not a place, it is people.
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?
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
I use an optimistic, positive approach to deal with my symptoms and it came the hard way, before I learned to laugh with myself a little.
I 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.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
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.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
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.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
All the world's a cage.
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If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
The best way out is always through.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
I stand in awe of my body.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
No.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
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.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
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 dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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.
Is there life before death?
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
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.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
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.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.