One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
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.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
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.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
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.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and it deteriorated. And then, just before Thanksgiving 1995, I found out I was going to make ten million dollars for Dumb & Dumber. I put that check in the casket with my father because it was our dream together.
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
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.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Maybe they were terrorists!
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
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.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
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.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
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.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
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.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
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