The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
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.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
All movements go too far.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
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.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
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.'
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
Post je objavljen 20.08.2010. u 00:43 sati.