At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
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.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
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.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!'
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
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.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
To try to be better is to be better.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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.
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.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
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.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
Art is science made clear.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
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.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
Optimism and hope are our best friends. Let?s reach out and Laugh together at our confounding traits and still, let?s keep in mind that our sympt oms and traits are very real with consequences, never to be underestimated or discounted.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
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.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
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.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
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