Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
All the world's a cage.
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.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
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.
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.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
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.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
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.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
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.
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.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
I ended up stepping on her stomach as the crowd pushed me past her, but by then I don't think she was feeling anything.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
Sitting in the back of that Hummer, my head in a hood, my hands lashed behind my back, lurching back and forth while the bruises swelled up on my head, terrorism suddenly felt a lot riskier.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
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.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
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.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
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.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
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.
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
A poem is no place for an idea.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
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.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
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.
A poem is no place for an idea.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Someone went upside my head again.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
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.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
Who were these clowns?
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
People fail forward to success.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
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?
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
Never eat more than you can lift.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
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.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
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.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
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.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
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.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
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.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
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.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
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.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.'
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
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.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
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.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
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 still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Someone went upside my head again.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
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.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
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.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
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.
All movements go too far.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
History is more or less bunk.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
The best way out is always through.
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.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Life is consciousness.
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.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
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.
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.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
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.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
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