Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.
If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
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.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
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.
People fail forward to success.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
See things as they are and write about them. Don?t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
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