Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
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.
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.
Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.
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.
Each body has its art...
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
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.
I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
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.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
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.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
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.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Memory feeds imagination.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
They weren't wearing insignia.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Is there life before death?
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
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.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
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.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
My home is not a place, it is people.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
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.
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 best of us must sometimes eat our words.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
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.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
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.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.
Vigorous writing is concise.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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