If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
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.
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.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
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.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
Post je objavljen 20.08.2010. u 05:53 sati.