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srijeda, 27.07.2011.

No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
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've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.

I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someoneýs feelings or ignoring truth.
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.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

A book is one of the greatest wonders of the world.

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

If there is a long time to wait I can always look at the portraits of film stars hanging on the walls of the foyer, or listen to a little concert that is usually given for the spectators.

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
I am not young enough to know everything.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

I think that my facilities combined with the knowledge would be quiet enough to succeed in my work.

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
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.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
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.
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.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
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.

There is wide variation in the existence of alcohol policies, in employees' awareness of them, and in their enforcement in workplaces across the country.

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
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.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

There are plently of good hotels, motels, and guest houses, in the world, conviently located for major business centers.

He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporaly out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

They call for MDCs to use their economic systems to reward population regulation and sustainable forms of economic growth instead of continuing their unsustainable forms of economic growth and encouraging LDCs to follow this eventually unsustainable and d

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.
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.
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.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
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.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.

For most people, alcohol is a pleasant accompaniment to social activities.

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.
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!
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
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.'
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
My head rang like a gong.

Australia is a country of almost 3 million square miles far from other countries that's why it wasn't discovered for a long time.

I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
I'd learned my lesson.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
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.
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.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
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.
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.

Things are only impossible until they're not.

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
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 struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.

I am fond of good books and good music, and when I have some time to spare, I like to go to the theatre or a concert.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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.
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.
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?
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.

Agatha Christie was sure the world's best selling crime writer.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
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.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

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.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
My head rang like a gong.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.

While students no longer read directly from his writing, the textbooks of today are still based on Euclidean proofs and theorems.

Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.

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.

Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
Maybe they were terrorists!
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.

I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
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.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

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.

Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
My home is not a place, it is people.

When the sun shines, the air of the Blue Mountains is a real, beautiful blue.

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
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.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

One "yes" response suggests a possible alcohol problem. If you responded "yes" to more than one question, it is highly likely that a problem exists.

Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
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.
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.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

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 never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Where facts are few, experts are many.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

My home is not a place, it is people.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
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.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
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.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.

He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
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.
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.

Is there life before death?

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
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.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

ý Have you ever felt bad or Guilty about your drinking?

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
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.
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.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
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.'

How does it differ from alcohol abuse?

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.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
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?
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.

ý Set a drinking goal for yourself. Some people choose to abstain from alcohol, while others prefer to limit the amount they drink.

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.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
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.
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
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.

Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
All movements go too far.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
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.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.

petak, 22.07.2011.

Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
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.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
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.

At that time the crucial issue of the extension of slavery into the territories split the Democratic party and the Whig party , and opponents of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 organized the new Republican party. Jackson, Mich., is called the birthplace o

Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.

Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .

McKinley through Coolidge

The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.

I think that books can help us. Last year I read a very interesting book "An American Tragedy" by Theodore Dreiser.

I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
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.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.

I like to watch films very much. I prefer thrillers, comedies and horror movies, but I do not like tragedies and melodramas very much, and I hate soap operas, although they are becoming very popular in our country.

History is more or less bunk.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
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?
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.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

Health promotion programs offered in the workplace may reduce employees' alcohol-related problems.

What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
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.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
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.

While alcoholism is a treatable disease, a cure is not yet available.

For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

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

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
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.

However, especially if it is cold and wet outside, many people like to stay at home to watch TV.

Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporaly out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

However, Dewey, the party's first unsuccessful candidate ever to be renominated, was defeated by a close margin.

A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
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.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
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.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

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.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

After 6 months, 76 percent of the heaviest drinkers reportedly reduced their alcohol consumption.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
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.
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
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.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.

But be, as you have been, my happiness...

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
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.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
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?
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

One reason is the wonderful riches under the earth: gold, silver, iron, coal and many precious metals.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
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.
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.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

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.

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

One "yes" response suggests a possible alcohol problem. If you responded "yes" to more than one question, it is highly likely that a problem exists.

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
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.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

ý Have people Annoyed you by criticizing your drinking?

We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
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.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

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?
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
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.
All the world's a cage.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
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.
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.

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.

The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

It is surrounded by exceedingly hot and dry deserts and steppes; the summer water temperature exceeds 85F (29C), and the water has a high salt content.

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
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.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
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.

The work began in 1913. Now, Canberra is an international city, full of diplomats and government offices.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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.
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.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

By straddling the issue of the League of Nations and calling for a return to "normalcy," the party easily elected Warren G. Harding in 1920.

If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
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.

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

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
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.'
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.

I use an optimistic, positive approach to deal with my symptoms and it came the hard way, before I learned to laugh with myself a little.

If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
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.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

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?
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
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.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
All the world's a cage.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

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.
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.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.

The best way out is always through.

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.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.

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.

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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.
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.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.

You should not live one way in private, another in public.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

In bad times, and in the driest parts, many animals may die for want of water.

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.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
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.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

The best way out is always through.

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
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.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.

God creates men, but they choose each other.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
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.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.

When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

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.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.

Australia is a country of almost 3 million square miles far from other countries that's why it wasn't discovered for a long time.

Facts are the enemy of truth.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
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.

All the world's a cage.

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 never know how much of what I say is true.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
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.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
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?
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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.'
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!
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

They weren't wearing insignia.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.

I remember, I liked thick books.

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
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."
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Love truth, and pardon error.

We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
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.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
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.

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.

As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.

Alcohol abuse differs from alcoholism in that it does not include an extremely strong craving for alcohol, loss of control, or physical dependence.

Where facts are few, experts are many.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.

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.

When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

There are some traditions connected with it.

There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
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.
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 freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.

For a man of such great significance to the world of mathematics, little is known about his actual life.

Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
Sitting in the back of that Hummer, my head in a hood, my hands lashed behind my back, lurching back and forth while the bruises swelled up on my head, terrorism suddenly felt a lot riskier.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
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.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.

And as you have a neighbour you can always turn to him if you need something, though from time to time your neighbour can disturb you when he repairs his part of the house or listens to music too loudly.

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.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
A poem is no place for an idea.
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.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
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.