Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
I use an optimistic, positive approach to deal with my symptoms and it came the hard way, before I learned to laugh with myself a little.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
All movements go too far.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
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.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of 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.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
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.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
I use an optimistic, positive approach to deal with my symptoms and it came the hard way, before I learned to laugh with myself a little.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
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.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
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.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
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 never know how much of what I say is true.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
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.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
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.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
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.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
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.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
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.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
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.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
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.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
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.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
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.
Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Someone went upside my head again.
I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporaly out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
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?
You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
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.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
Looks are part of business. A businessman should never stand out more than his customers. His mannerisms, his clothes, everything about him... Moderation is the key.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
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.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
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.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again.
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
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.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
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.
The best way out is always through.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.
Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
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.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
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.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
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.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
People fail forward to success.
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.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
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.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
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?
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
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 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.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
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.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
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.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don?t seem so bad lately.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
A joke's a very serious thing.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
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.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
The best way out is always through.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
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.
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.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
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