Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
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.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
Someone went upside my head again.
Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
I've gone into hundreds of fortune-teller's parlors, and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
My home is not a place, it is people.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Memory feeds imagination.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Memory feeds imagination.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
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!
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
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