I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
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?
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
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.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
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 have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
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.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
All the world's a cage.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
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.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
A smiling face is half the meal.
He who laughs, lasts!
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
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.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
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.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Well done is better than well said.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
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.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
Is there life before death?
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
They can conquer who believe they can.
Optimism and hope are our best friends. Let?s reach out and Laugh together at our confounding traits and still, let?s keep in mind that our sympt oms and traits are very real with consequences, never to be underestimated or discounted.
I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
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