Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
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.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
People fail forward to success.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
Our lives teach us who we are.
I nearly fell again, but new hands grabbed me from in front and dragged me down a steel floor and then forced me to my knees and locked my hands to something behind me.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
I'd learned my lesson.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
My home is not a place, it is people.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
Who were these clowns?
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
My home is not a place, it is people.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
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?
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