When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
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?
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.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
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 need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
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.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
Post je objavljen 20.08.2010. u 03:30 sati.