The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
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.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
I looked up and saw a bunch of military-looking guys in coveralls, holding big, bulky rifles and wearing hooded gas masks with tinted face-plates.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
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.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
Post je objavljen 20.08.2010. u 02:50 sati.