You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
People fail forward to success.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
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.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
Facts are the enemy of truth.
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.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
I didn't even breathe.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
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.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
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 power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
We are what we repeatedly do.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
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?
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
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.
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
All movements go too far.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
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.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
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.
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.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Well done is better than well said.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
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.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
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.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
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