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četvrtak, 02.12.2010.

A smiling face is half the meal.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
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.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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.
They weren't wearing insignia.
Keep cool and you command everybody.

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
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.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.

So, sometime ago I suddenly fell ill.

Who were these clowns?
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
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.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
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.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
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.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.

When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.

I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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!
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
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.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.

Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.

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 discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
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.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
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.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.

We are what we repeatedly do.

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.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

They believe, however, that adding several hundred million more people in MDCs and several billion more in LDSs ( less developed countries) will intensify many environmental and social problems by increasing resource use and waste, environmental degradat

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.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Maybe they were terrorists!
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

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