Sitting in the back of that Hummer, my head in a hood, my hands lashed behind my back, lurching back and forth while the bruises swelled up on my head, terrorism suddenly felt a lot riskier.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
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.
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.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
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.
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.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
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.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
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.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
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.
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.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
Vigorous writing is concise.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
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.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
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.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
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.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
We are what we repeatedly do.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
Maybe they were terrorists!
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
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.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
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