You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.
Post je objavljen 20.08.2010. u 03:58 sati.