It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
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.'
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.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
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.
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.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
I didn't even breathe.
Post je objavljen 20.08.2010. u 08:33 sati.