Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
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?
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
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.
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
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 is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
I am not young enough to know everything.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
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.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
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?
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
Optimism and hope are our best friends. Let?s reach out and Laugh together at our confounding traits and still, let?s keep in mind that our sympt oms and traits are very real with consequences, never to be underestimated or discounted.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
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 rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
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.
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
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!'
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
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.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
Never eat more than you can lift.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
Is there life before death?
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
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 beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
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.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
To try to be better is to be better.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
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.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
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 prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
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.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
All movements go too far.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
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.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
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.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
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.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
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.
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.
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.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
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.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
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Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
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.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Art is science made clear.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
Looks are part of business. A businessman should never stand out more than his customers. His mannerisms, his clothes, everything about him... Moderation is the key.
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.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
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.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
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.
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.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
Life is consciousness.
People fail forward to success.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
My home is not a place, it is people.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
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.
My head rang like a gong.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
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.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
Each body has its art...
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
I'd learned my lesson.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
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.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Never eat more than you can lift.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
The best way out is always through.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
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.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
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.
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Our lives teach us who we are.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
I use an optimistic, positive approach to deal with my symptoms and it came the hard way, before I learned to laugh with myself a little.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
I stand in awe of my body.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
Love truth, and pardon error.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
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.
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.
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
Love truth, and pardon error.
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.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
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.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
Art is science made clear.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
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.
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
My friends are my estate.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
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.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
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.
There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
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.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
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'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.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
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 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.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
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.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
My home is not a place, it is people.
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'.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
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.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
My home is not a place, it is people.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
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.
You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.
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.
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
A joke's a very serious thing.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
All movements go too far.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
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.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
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.
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.
Life is consciousness.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
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.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
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.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
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.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
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'.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
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A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
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 such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
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.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.
Memory feeds imagination.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
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