Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
Post je objavljen 20.08.2010. u 01:55 sati.