Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
Memory feeds imagination.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
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