The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!
We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
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.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.
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.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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.
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.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
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.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
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.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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?
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
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.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
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.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
My home is not a place, it is people.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
Someone went upside my head again.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
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.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
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.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
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.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
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.
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.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
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.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
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.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
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.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
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.
I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly.
To try to be better is to be better.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
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.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
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.
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.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
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.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
A joke's a very serious thing.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
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.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
Life is consciousness.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
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.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
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.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
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.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
I was as scared as I'd ever been. There was screaming everywhere now, and more bodies on the floor, and the press from behind was as relentless as a bulldozer. It was all I could do to keep on my feet.
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.
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.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
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.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
He who laughs, lasts!
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.
Life is consciousness.
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
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.
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.
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.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
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.
Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
Memory feeds imagination.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
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.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
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.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
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.
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.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
Maybe they were terrorists!
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
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.
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.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
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.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
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.'
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.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
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.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
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.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
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.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
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.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
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?
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
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.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
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.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
History is more or less bunk.
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.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
All the world's a cage.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
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?
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
I stand in awe of my body.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
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.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
Life is consciousness.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
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.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Someone went upside my head again.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
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.
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.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
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.
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
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.
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.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
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.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
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.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
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.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
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.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Is there life before death?
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.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
My friends are my estate.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
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."
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
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.'
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
They weren't wearing insignia.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
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.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
I stand in awe of my body.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
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.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
Well done is better than well said.
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.
They weren't wearing insignia.
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.'
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
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.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
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.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
People fail forward to success.
I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
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.
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.
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.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
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.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
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.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
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.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
Vigorous writing is concise.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
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.
People fail forward to success.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
People fail forward to success.
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
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.
There isn?t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren?t really living without it.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
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.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
We are what we repeatedly do.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Our lives teach us who we are.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
A joke's a very serious thing.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
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.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporaly out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
Each body has its art...
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
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.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
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.
'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.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
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.
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.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
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.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
A joke's a very serious thing.
Maybe they were terrorists!
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
A joke's a very serious thing.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
I strained around against the crowd and saw Van looking with disgust at an older guy in a nice suit who was kind of smirking at her. She was digging in her purse and I knew what she was digging for.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
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.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
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.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
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.
I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
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.
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
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.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
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I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
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.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
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.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
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.
Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
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.
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
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.
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.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
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.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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?
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.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.