To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
My home is not a place, it is people.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
All movements go too far.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
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.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
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.
She screamed as she went down, and I saw her thrashing to get up, but she couldn't, the crowd's pressure was too strong.
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 movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
I've gone into hundreds of fortune-teller's parlors, and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
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It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
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.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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.
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.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
So little time and so little to do.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
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.
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.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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.
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
No.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
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.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
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.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
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?
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.
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.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
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.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
No.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
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?
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
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 is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
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.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
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.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
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.
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 lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
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.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
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.
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.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
A smiling face is half the meal.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
I've gone into hundreds of fortune-teller's parlors, and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
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.
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.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
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.'
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
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.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
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.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
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.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
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.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
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.
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.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
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!'
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?
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
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.
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.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
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.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Our lives teach us who we are.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
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.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
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.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
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 never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
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.
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.
All the world's a cage.
Is there life before death?
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.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
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.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
They can conquer who believe they can.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
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.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
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.
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.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
He who laughs, lasts!
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
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