I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
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.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
Our lives teach us who we are.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
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.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
Love truth, and pardon error.
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.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
Each body has its art...
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
I was as scared as I'd ever been. There was screaming everywhere now, and more bodies on the floor, and the press from behind was as relentless as a bulldozer. It was all I could do to keep on my feet.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
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.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
Worries go down better with soup than without.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
My head rang like a gong.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
I didn't even breathe.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Walking is man's best medicine.
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.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
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.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
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'.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
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.
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.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
Never eat more than you can lift.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
I was as scared as I'd ever been. There was screaming everywhere now, and more bodies on the floor, and the press from behind was as relentless as a bulldozer. It was all I could do to keep on my feet.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
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.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
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.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
I am not young enough to know everything.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
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.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
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!'
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
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.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
I'd learned my lesson.
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
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.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
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.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
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.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
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.
Vigorous writing is concise.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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.
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.
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.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
See things as they are and write about them. Don?t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
A poem is no place for an idea.
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.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Someone went upside my head again.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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.
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.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
Vanessa didn't like it, but I figured a cop wasn't going to stop for a kid waving his hat in the street, not that day. They just might stop if they saw Darryl bleeding there, though. I argued briefly with her and Darryl settled it by lurching to his feet and dragging himself down toward Market Street.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
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?
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
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.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
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.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
All the world's a cage.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
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