I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
I looked up and saw a bunch of military-looking guys in coveralls, holding big, bulky rifles and wearing hooded gas masks with tinted face-plates.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.
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.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
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?
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
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 supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
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.
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.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
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.
History is more or less bunk.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
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.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
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.
Maybe they were terrorists!
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
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.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Each body has its art...
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
My friends are my estate.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
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.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
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.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
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.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
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