Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
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.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
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.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
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.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
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.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
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.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
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.
I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
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.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
There are 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.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
They can conquer who believe they can.
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
My head rang like a gong.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
History is more or less bunk.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
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.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
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.
Love truth, and pardon error.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
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.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
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 one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
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.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
Never eat more than you can lift.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
Someone went upside my head again.
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.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
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.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
A joke's a very serious thing.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
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."
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
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.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
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.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
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?
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
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.
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.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
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.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
I stand in awe of my body.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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