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utorak, 31.08.2010.

Assassinated shortly after taking office, Garfield was succeeded by Vice President Chester A. Arthur .

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

These books excite my imagination. I think I devote much time to reading.

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.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

Do you want to put down roots or travel videly? Second: what sort of work do you want to do?

What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
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?
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.

I stand in awe of my body.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
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.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

They have many TV and radio programs to choose from.

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.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
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.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
All the world's a cage.

I travelled with the heroes of the stories.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.

How can you tell whether you, or someone close to you, may have a drinking problem?

The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
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.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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.

The process of reading demands lots of thinking on the part of the reader because reading exists not only for entertainment.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
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.
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.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.

Read more and you'll never be bored!

Even the best of friends need time apart.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
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!
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.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
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.

Some project that if everyone existed at a minimum survival level, the earth could support 20 to 48 billion people.

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.

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