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petak, 20.08.2010.

The car skidded to a stop just in front of me, and I jumped back and lost my balance and ended up on the road.

You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
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.
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.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
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.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
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.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
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.

Industrial enterprises emit tons of harmful substunces.

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
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.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
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.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Euclid also founded a great mathematics school in Alexandria.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
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.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
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 have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
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?
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.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.

In the 4'th part Swift describes Gulliver's adventures at the Heuyhnhnms - a ideal land where were is neither sickness, dishonesty, non any of the frivo-lities of human scociety.

You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
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.
The car skidded to a stop just in front of me, and I jumped back and lost my balance and ended up on the road.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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 can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
We are what we repeatedly do.
Vigorous writing is concise.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
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.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
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.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.

The business center of New York is near Wall Street.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
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.
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
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.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
A poem is no place for an idea.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
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?
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.

Now there are a lot of books in the shops, there are many books in our flats.

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.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
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.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

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 eventua

Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
Art is science made clear.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
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.
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.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
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.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
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.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
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.
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.
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.

The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.

He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
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?
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
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.
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.'
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.
The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.

utorak, 10.08.2010.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
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.
Maybe they were terrorists!
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.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
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.

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.

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
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.
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.

Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.
Never eat more than you can lift.
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.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Their numerous facilities include both: large and small cocktail barber's shops and conference halls, equipped with simultaneous, multilingual translation systems.

Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

I'd learned my lesson.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

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.

No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
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.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.

Someone went upside my head again.

Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
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.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
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.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
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.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
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.

Diseases brought by settlers caused many deaths among the aborigines and now there are only about 60 000 of them.

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.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
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.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Despite not winning the popular vote.

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
I 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.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.

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.

Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.

Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Who were these clowns?
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
No.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

There are, for example, the Blue Mountains.

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.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
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.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
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.

Now I like to read books on science.

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!
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
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.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.

There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
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.
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 never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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.
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

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.

O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
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.
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 cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.

That means that even if an alcoholic has been sober for a long while and has regained health, he or she remains susceptible to relapse and must continue to avoid all alcoholic beverages.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

But then Australians decided to build a capital city..

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'.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

Then printing came into our life.

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
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.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
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.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

My mother showed me the boxes, the pitm the dress-circle, the tieres and balconies.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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.
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

One of the most important reflections of equity is equal rights in the labor market.

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
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.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
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?
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.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

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.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
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.
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?

utorak, 03.08.2010.

mainly oak and beech in the Lowlands and pine and birch In the Highlands, with great stretches of marshland and smaller areas of moors.

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
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.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
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.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
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.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.

The Aral Sea is on the brink of extinction.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
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.

It is the longest and the widest street in New York.

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.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
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.

If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
So little time and so little to do.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

There isn?t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren?t really living without it.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
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.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
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.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

In addition, supervisors were under constant pressure to keep production moving and were motivated to discipline employees for drinking only if the drinking was compromising production or jeopardizing safety. Workers' knowledge that policies were rarely e

Is there life before death?
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.

In fact, King Ptolemy once asked Euclid if there was an easier way to study math than learning all the theorems.

The best way out is always through.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
Each body has its art...
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
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.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

And there they found Guy Fawker about to fire a trail of gunpowder.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
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.
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.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.

Like orchestras, the theatre companies usually play in rented theatres, but there are several theatres which have their own homes.

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

To try to be better is to be better.

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
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.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
To try to be better is to be better.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

These analysts recognize that population growth is not the only cause or our environmental and resource problems.

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.
The car skidded to a stop just in front of me, and I jumped back and lost my balance and ended up on the road.
Maybe they were terrorists!
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

Life is consciousness.

It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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!
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
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.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
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.

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.

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.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
To try to be better is to be better.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

Meeting people for the first time we always make a judgment based on their appearances though the proverb tells us not to make such a mistake.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
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.
Love truth, and pardon error.
The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
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.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.

Women's salaries are on average lower than men's, and women are likewise far more likely to fall victim to violence and unemployment.

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
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.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.

They have done this more or less every 5th of November since 1605.

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
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.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
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.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

The sky is always dull and overcast and it often rains, so there are pools on roads and cars splash the water on the passers-by.

True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
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.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.

The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
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.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
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.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
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.

Finns like to eat hot sausages and drink beer in the streets; many Philipinos prefer to eat with their hands.

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.
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.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.

They can conquer who believe they can.

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
People fail forward to success.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.

ponedjeljak, 02.08.2010.

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.

I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
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.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.

I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.

Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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."

The air above the forest contains millions of microscopic drops of eucalyptus oil.

Act as if it were impossible to fail.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
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.
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.

Things are only impossible until they're not.

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
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.

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
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.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

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.

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.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

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.

Art is science made clear.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
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 most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
So little time and so little to do.

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.

Now I like to read books on science, history and biology.

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
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.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

Our flat is very warm and cosy, so it makes any person feel at home.

What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
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.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
'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.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.