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My friends are my estate.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
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.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.

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.

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
So little time and so little to do.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
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.

Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.

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.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
Maybe they were terrorists!
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?

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.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
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.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.

It has a lot of advantages: first of all your neighbours can never disturb you.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Well done is better than well said.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
Maybe they were terrorists!
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

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.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

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

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
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.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
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 moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
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.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

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.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.

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