Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
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.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
My head rang like a gong.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
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 read a book through merely because you have begun it.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
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.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
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."
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 best way out is always through.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
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?
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
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.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
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.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
It's takin' whatever comes your way, the good AND the bad, that give life flavor. It's all the stuff rolled together that makes life worth livin'.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
We are what we repeatedly do.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
People fail forward to success.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
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.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
The car skidded to a stop just in front of me, and I jumped back and lost my balance and ended up on the road.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
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.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
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.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
I nearly fell again, but new hands grabbed me from in front and dragged me down a steel floor and then forced me to my knees and locked my hands to something behind me.
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.'
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
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.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
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.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
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.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
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.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
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.
I stand in awe of my body.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
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.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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.
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.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
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.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
They can conquer who believe they can.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
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.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
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.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
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.
He who laughs, lasts!
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
A smiling face is half the meal.
Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
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.'
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
Walking is man's best medicine.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
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.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
Is there life before death?
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
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