Facts are the enemy of truth.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
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.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
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.
Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
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.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
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.
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
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.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
Never eat more than you can lift.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
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.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
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.
Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
People fail forward to success.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Is there life before death?
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
I ended up stepping on her stomach as the crowd pushed me past her, but by then I don't think she was feeling anything.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
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.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
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.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
So little time and so little to do.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
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.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
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.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
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.
They can conquer who believe they can.
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
Is there life before death?
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
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.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
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.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
There isn?t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren?t really living without it.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
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.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
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.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.
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